Léon-Jean de Paepe (1610–1685), lord of Glabbeek, was an officeholder and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands. After serving on the Council of Brabant in Brussels and on the Supreme Council of Flanders in Madrid, De Paepe was appointed president of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1674.Philippe de Cantillon, Delices du Brabant, vol. 2 (Amsterdam, 1757), 46. He died on 8 August 1685.Léon de Herckenrode, Complément au Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du comté de Bourgogne, vol. 2 (Ghent, 1866), 79.
His son Gilles-Dominique married Catherine de Brouchoven, daughter of Helena Fourment.Reginald De Schryver, Jan van Brouchoven, graaf van Bergeyck 1644-1725: een halve eeuw staatkunde in de Spaanse Nederlanden en in Europa (Brussels, 1965).
Works De Paepe was the author of a manuscript treatise on the Joyous Entry entitled Remarques sur la joyeuse entrée de S.M. comme duc de Brabant.Catalogue de livres de la bibliothèque de feu messire L. Deroovere De Roosemeersch (Brussels, 1845), 116.
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