– 23 November 1558 in Brussels) was Count of Lalaing, Lord of Escornaix and stadtholder of the County of Hainaut.

His younger brother was Philip de Lalaing, 2nd Count of Hoogstraten, who became Stadtholder of Guelders, Zutphen and Jülich.

They had 13 children of which 12 died young, except : After Margaret's death, Charles remarried in 1550 with Marie of Montmorency.

They had 4 children : In 1531, at the age of 25, Charles became a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.

[1] When the Governor of the Netherlands, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, left for Italy in 1557 to fight the French in the Italian War of 1551–1559, Charles became his temporary substitute.