Misplaced Pages

Leonard du Bus de Gisignies

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Dutch colonial administrator and politician In this Dutch name, the surname is Du Bus de Gisignies, not Gisignies.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Dutch. (December 2024) Click for important translation instructions.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 266 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|nl|Leonard du Bus de Gisignies}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Leonard du Bus de Gisignies
Portrait by François-Joseph Navez, 1836
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
In office
2 January 1826 – 16 January 1830
MonarchWilliam I
Lieutenant GovernorHendrik Merkus de Kock
Preceded byGodert van der Capellen
Succeeded byJohannes van den Bosch
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office
19 October 1818 – 18 October 1819
Preceded byJan Pieter van Wickenwoort Crommelin
Succeeded byArnold Hendrik van Markel Bouwer
Personal details
BornLeonard Pierre Joseph Dubus
(1780-02-28)28 February 1780
Mouscron, Austrian Netherlands
Died31 May 1849(1849-05-31) (aged 69)
Oostmalle, Belgium
Spouses
Marie-Catherine de Deurwaerder ​ ​(m. 1802; died 1836)​
Marie-Antoinette van der Gracht de Fretin ​ ​(m. 1839)​
Children
  • Clémentine Cathérine François du Bus de Gisignies (daughter)
  • Gustave Bernard Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (son)
  • Bernard Aimé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (son)
  • Albéric du Bus de Gisignies (son)
  • Chrétien Henri Honoré Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (son)
  • Constantin Léonard Anne Francois Marie Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (son)
Parents
  • Pierre Ignace du Bus (father)
  • Marie Debrandrengluin (mother)
Military service
AllegianceKingdom of France
Branch/serviceFrench Royal Army
Years of service1802–1815

Leonard Pierre Joseph, Viscount du Bus de Gisignies (28 February 1780 – 31 May 1849) was a soldier and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Early life

He was born in Dottignies, Austrian Netherlands on 28 February 1780. He was born as Leonard Pierre Joseph Dubus, but on 14 June 1822, de Gisignies was added to his name.

He probably started to study law at Douai, but did not finish his education, because universities closed for some time during the French Revolution.

Career

Allegorical Coat of Arms on the appointment of Du Bus de Gisignies as Commissioner. Showing a Belgian and a Dutchman shake hands, while a Javanese stands behind the shield and his hands on the arms of both men. (3 February 1826)

He served in the French Royal Army from 1802 until 1815. On 21 September 1815, in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, he became a member of the House of Representatives of the States-General of the Netherlands for the province of West Flanders and on 20 September 1816, he was raised to Dutch nobility and was knighted on 24 November 1816, he later became its President during the meeting year from 1818 to 1819.

On 22 May 1819 he became a Viscount. He was made a commander on 20 July 1823 in the order of the Dutch Lion, and would later receive on 6 July 1830 the cross in the same order.

Afterwards he had several administrative functions, first of all as Governor of the province of Antwerp on 3 April 1820 - March 1823, and from 25 March 1823 up to 9 May 1828 of the province of South Brabant (Dutch: Zuid-Brabant).

From 4 February 1826 up to 16 January 1830 he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: Commissaris-Generaal) of the Dutch East Indies, for which he received an annual wages of 200,000 Guilders, with the condition that he also retained his function of governor of South Brabant. On 9 May 1828 he was appointed as Minister of State, but after the Belgian Revolution he was removed from this office on 18 October 1830. On 6 October 1830, he bought Renesse Castle in Oostmalle from Count Clement-Wenceslas de Renesse-Breidbach and renovated the castle in Empire style.

Personal life

On 20 July 1802, he married his first wife, Marie-Catherine de Deurwaerder, who died on 23 June 1836. He had 1 daughter and 5 sons from his first marriage:

He married his second wife Marie-Antoinette van der Gracht de Fretin on 20 November 1839.

Death

He died in Oostmalle, Belgium on 31 May 1849.

Sources

  • Bart De Prins, Léonard Du Bus de Gisignies (1780–1849), Belgian Commissioner-general in the Dutch East Indies: A Reassessment, Itnerario, 2000.
  • Bart de Prins, Voor Keizer en Koning, Leonard du Bus de Gisignies 1780 - 1849, Commissaris-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië, ISBN 90-5018-577-0
  • L.P.J. burggraaf du Bus de Gisignies (in Dutch)

External links

Political offices
Preceded byGodert van der Capellen Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
1826–1830
Served alongside: Hendrik Merkus de Kock 		Succeeded byJohannes van den Bosch
Preceded byJan Pieter van Wickenwoort Crommelin Speaker of the House of Representatives
1818–1819 		Succeeded byArnold Hendrik van Markel Bouwer
Governors-general of the Dutch East Indies
Company
appointed
(1610–1800)
Government
appointed
(1800–1948)
Categories:
Leonard du Bus de Gisignies Add topic