Henri de Merode

Count Henri Marie Ghislain de Merode (1782–1847) was a member of the Belgian Senate and writer.

He was also awarded the titles of Grandee of Spain and Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold.

[1] In about 1894 he fled with his father from the revolutionary French forces taking over the Austrian Netherlands and moved to elsewhere in the Holy Roman Empire.

He returned to the general area of Brussles, now part of the French Republic, with his father in 1800.

Having declined to serve in public office under the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, Merode supported the aims of the Belgian Revolution, in which his younger brothers Félix and Frédéric [fr; nl] played an active role, but sat out the fighting on an estate in France.