Filips Wielant

Filips Wielant (1441/2–1520) was a magistrate and legal theorist in the Burgundian Netherlands, and a participant in the Flemish revolts against Maximilian of Austria.

On 14 September, Maximilian declared the regency council abolished, and on 14 October Wielant was among those arrested by gens d'armes in the service of Lancelot de Berlaimont and imprisoned at his castle near Maubeuge.

[1] In May 1484 those who had supported rule by a regency council rather than by the young duke's father were reconciled to Maximilian, and Wielant was released.

[1] On 28 February 1486 Wielant was again imprisoned, this time on the orders of Engelbert of Nassau, whom Maximilian had left in charge of his military forces in the Low Countries when he returned to Germany to seek election as King of the Romans.

On 28 October 1488, Maximilian responded by relieving him of his title as councillor and master of requests of the household, for "taking party against us and adhering to our rebel subjects in Flanders".

[1] Wielant in fact worked to find a compromise between the cities of Flanders and Maximilian, and was involved in the negotiations that led to the Peace of Cadzand on 19 July 1492.