Louis de Berlaymont

Louis de Berlaymont (1542–1596) was an aristocratic clergyman in the Habsburg Netherlands who served as the second archbishop of Cambrai.

On 15 September 1570, aged only 28, he was elected archbishop of Cambrai.

[1] When Francis, Duke of Anjou, took Cambrai in 1580, Berlaymont withdrew to Mons, in the County of Hainaut, governing the archdiocese from there.

[2] He was also provost of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht from 1570 to 1596, as well as serving as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Tournai during the vacancy following the death of Jean Vendeville in 1592.

The French garrison was driven out of Cambrai by Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, on 3 October 1595, but the archbishop never returned to his see.

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