Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands

[1] Based in Brussels, it was particularly charged with legal and administrative questions.

[2] The Council was founded on 1 October 1531 by Emperor Charles V.[3] He prescribed a president, eight councillors, and a secretary.

Philip V of Spain abolished the council in 1702, but it was later restored by the archduchess-governess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen and finally abolished by the Brabant Revolution.

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Privy Councillors Engelbert Maes , Guillaume de Grysperre , Ferdinand de Boisschot , Jean Grivel and Guillaume de Steenhuys in the funeral cortege of Archduke Albert (1622)