Jan Baptist Christyn the Younger

Jan Baptist Christyn the Younger (c.1635–1707), knight, was a lawyer and author in the Spanish Netherlands.

As a Licentiate of Laws he practised law in the city of Brussels for a number of years, until in 1697 appointed a judge of the Council of Brabant alongside his uncle Libert-François Christyn.

[1] He wrote a number of works on legal matters.

Les délices des Pays-Bas: ou Description géographique et historique des XVII.

provinces belgiques, a historical chorography of the Low Countries first published in 1697, has been attributed to him, but also to another of his uncles, Chancellor Jan Baptist Christyn (I).