Gaspard II Schetz

Gaspar Schetz (1513–1580), Lord of Grobbendonk, Hereditary Marshal of Brabant was a financier and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands.

From Charles de Brimeu, the last lord of Meghem, he purchased the lordship of Wezemaal, which brought with it the title of hereditary marshal of the Duchy of Brabant.

By letters patent of 25 November 1555 Philip II of Spain appointed Schetz royal factor in Antwerp.

Gaspard was even very respected by the Dutch aristocracy, even the duke of Alva wrote to the King of Spain: Schetz is their living God, they all swear in his faith!

He published a dialogue promoting his own perspective under the title Viri, pietate, moderatione, doctrinâque clarissimi, dialogus de Pace, rationes, quibus Belgici tumultus, inter Philippum, serenissimum et potentissimum Hispaniæ regem, et subditos, hoc rerum statu componi possint, explicans (Antwerp and Cologne, 1579).