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Louis of Praet,
Louis of Flanders, Lord of Praet, or locally
Lodewijk van Praet (
1488,
Bruges -
October 7 1555) was a
nobleman from the
Low Countries and an important
diplomat and
statesman under the Emperor
Charles V.
Louis was descended through his father from a
bastard son of
Louis of Male, count of Flanders, and through his mother from a bastard daughter of
Philip the Good. He was a student of the
Brethren of the Common Life and studied in
Leuven.
Louis was 'hoog-baljuw' ("grand bailiff") of
Ghent from 1515 to 1522 and of Bruges from 1523 to 1549. He served the Emperor between
1522 and
1525 as
ambassador in England, where he in the end got into severe conflict with
Thomas Wolsey and had to leave the country. Between 1525 and
1526 he also served as
ambassador in
France.
In England, Praet met the Spanish humanist
Juan Luis Vives who dedicated his 1523 book
De Consultatione to him. Praet also either directly inspired or encouraged Vives to write his book
On Assistance to the Poor, which he did when living in Bruges in 1526. Vives dedicated the book to Lord Praet, writing:
» "Actually I'd been asked to do this some time ago, when I was in England, by Lord Praet your Burgomaster, who deliberates deeply and often -as indeed he ought- concerning the public welfare of the city".
Louis was elected
knight of the Golden Fleece in
1531 and then took up his residence in the Netherlands. He served as
Stadtholder in
Holland and
Zeeland between
1544 and
1546.
In 1555 he was buried in an impressive mausoleum at
Aalter, between Bruges and Ghent.
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