Events in the year 1601 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands Sovereigns – Archdukes Albert and Isabella
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ernest of Bavaria
Events Mark de Cooman and Frank van der Planken establish a tapestry manufactory in Oudenaarde.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), p. 370.
January 3 January – States of Brabant agree an exceptional additional subsidy of 60,000 Brabant guilders for one year, to be levied as a sales tax from wine merchants, brewers, butchers and bakers, and to be used to pay troops garrisoned in Brabant.Ordonnantie, ende instructie daer op men van weghen de dry Staeten des landts ende hertochdoms van Brabandt collecteren, verpachten ende innen sal [...] de middelen [...] tot furnissemente vande nieuwe extraordinarise bede (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1601) on Google Books. 16 January – New regulations for trading on the Stock Exchange in Antwerp decreed.Placcaet van haere hoocheden, aengaende hoe de coopluyden, ende alle andere van wat qualiteyt sy moghen wesen, hen sullen moeten reguleren op de borsse, ter borsse tijdt (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1601). On Google Books.
March 20 March – New regulations on distilleries for brandy and aqua vitae decreed.Ordonnantie ende placcaet vande Eertzhertoghen tegen d'abuysen dier geschieden in sommige plaetsen, ende landen hervvertsouer, deur de[n] ommatigen dra[n]ck ende slete vande ghebrande-vvynen, andersins geheete[n] leuende-vvateren, ende ander gelycke distillatien (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1601). On Google Books
April 13 April – Export prohibition for saltpetre and gunpowder.Placcaert ende ordinantie vande eertshertoghen waermede van wegen heure Hoocheden wordt verboden alle het vervueren wtte landen van herweertsouere van Salpeteren ende Buspoyeren, ende daer beneffens gestelt ordre opt suecken, maken, ende handeling (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1601) On Google Books
May 12 May – Proclamation regulating hunting in the County of Flanders 21 May – As Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, the Archdukes Albert and Isabella conclude an agreement with Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, concerning their rights of patronage over the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy.Quentin Leboutte, Le Droit public de la Principauté de Stavelot-Malmédy (XIV-XVI siècles): Rapport de recherche (University of Liège, 2025), p. 85.
June 12 June – Maurice of Nassau lays siege to Rheinberg.
July 4 July – Archduke Albert applies to the States of Flanders, in session in Bruges, for a "half hundredth penny" (a tax of 0.5%) to finance the Siege of Ostend. Werner Thomas, "Het beleg van Ooostende", in De val van het Nieuwe Troje: Het beleg van Oostende, 1601-1604, ed. Werner Thomas (Ostend and Leuven, 2004). 5 July – Siege of Ostend begins. 10 July – Archduke Albert personally leads an assault on the defences of Ostend. 15 July – Sir Francis Vere arrives in Ostend with reinforcements.
August 16 August – High tides at Ostend flood trenches.
November 2 November – Maurice of Nassau lays siege to 's-Hertogenbosch. 13 November – City of Antwerp prohibits gambling on the outcome of military campaigns. 22 November – Maurice of Nassau abandons the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.
Publications anon., Les annales du Japon, de la Chine, et de Mogor (Liège, Art de Coerswarem) anon., Histoire dès guérisons admirables qui par la grâce divine sont advenues en Dinant, l’an 1599 (Liège, Christian Ouwerx) anon., Verhael van een tsamen-sprekinge, gehouden tusschen een courtisan oft hovelinck ende een borgere, nopende den tegenwoordighen staet van Nederlant (Leuven, Joannes Masius)Available on Google Books anon., Translat de certain placart publie a Londres le 9. de Febvrier 1601 Touchant l'invasion & interpriase des Contes de Essex, Rutland & Southamton, avec leurs adherens (Brussels, Rutger Velpius) Franciscus Costerus, Catholijcke sermoonen, op de evangelien der sondaghen vanden advent to den vasten (Antwerp, no address) Henricus van Cuyck, Speculum concubinariorum (Leuven, Joannes Masius) Etienne Du Tronchet, Lettres missives et familières, avec le monologue de la Providence Divine au peuple français (Douai, Jean Bogard) Jan Franco, Ephemeris metheorologica. Seer schoone beschrijvinge van de revolutien ende inclinatien des iaers ons Heeren 1601 voor de princelijcke stadt van Bruessel (Antwerp, Arnout Conincx) Jan Franco, Kalender oft journael, voor het iaer ons Heeren M.D.CI. dienende voor den 7. climaet. Met die dagelijcxsche getijden der vaert van Brussel naer Antwerpen: oft van daer wederom voor de princelijcke stadt van Bruessel (Antwerp, Arnout Conincx) Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis ad Italos & Hispanos (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum III. centuriae (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Nicolas de Montmorency, Spiritualis dulcedo quatuor libris (Leuven, Gerard Rivius) Abraham Ortelius, Epitome theatri orbis terrarum (Antwerp, Jan van Keerberghen) Antonio Ortiz, A relation of the solemnetie wherewith the Catholike princes K. Phillip the III. and Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22. of August, 1600, translated by Francis Rivers (Antwerp, Arnout Coninx) Andres de Soto, Contemplacion del crucifixo, y consideraciones de Christo crucificado (Antwerp, Plantin Press)Available on Google Books Alessandro Valignano, Japponia & China, scriptae 10. octobris 1599 Richard Verstegan, Odes in imitation of the seaven penitential psalmes, with sundry other poemes and ditties tending to devotion and pietie (Antwerp, Arnold Conincx, 1601)Odes at EEBO Cornelius Columbanus Vrancx, Den troost der zielen (Ghent, Gaultier Manilius)
Births 21 June – Godfrey Henschen, hagiographer (died 1681) 13 September – Jan Brueghel the Younger, painter (died 1678)
date uncertain Nicolas de Liemaker, painter (died 1646) Frans Ykens, painter (died 1693)
Deaths 10 May – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder (born c. 1550), architect 24 July – Joris Hoefnagel (born 1542), printmaker
date uncertain Jacobus Typotius (born 1540), humanist
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