1631 in Belgium

Events in the year 1631 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

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Decades:	1630s 1650s
See also:	Other events of 1631 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Habsburg Netherlands

Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor General – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events

• Membership of the Walloon Province (Provincia Gallo-Belgica) of the Society of Jesus peaks at 856.
• 5 February – Export of saltpetre and gunpowder prohibited by royal order.
• 8 February – Council of Flanders reissues a 1605 clarification of their 1601 proclamation on the production and sale of brandywine, prohibiting innkeepers and tavernkeepers from distilling brandywine, and brandywine distillers from selling retail except to medical professionals.
• 22 March – Detailed proclamation on hunting in the County of Flanders issued in Brussels.
• 1 to 4 June – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, launches an abortive invasion of the County of Flanders from IJzendijke, probing the defences of Bruges.
• 19 July – Marie de' Medici flees from Compiègne to the Low Countries.
• 29 July – Marie de' Medici takes up residence in Mons.
• 5 August – Decree on foreign and billon coinage issued.
• 11 August – Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia arrives in Mons to welcome Marie de' Medici.
• 26 November – Antwerp city council issues by-laws against price-gouging in the transportation of firewood.

Publications

• Antonio Álvares Suares, Elogio funebre en cancion real a la vida i hazañas muerte i obsequias del señor Ambrosio Spinola, marques de los Balbases, cavallero de la orden del tuson de oro (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Philippe Chifflet, Histoire du prieuré nostre Dame de Bellefontaine au comté de Bourgongne (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Libertus Fromondus, Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui liber unus: philosophis, mathematicis, theologis utilis ac iucundus (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Emmanuel Rodriguez de Gratia, Rodericus fatalis tragoedia (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn)
• Jean Puget de la Serre, Le Bréviaire des courtisans (Brussels, François Vivien)
• Erycius Puteanus, Diva virgo Bellifontana in Sequanis (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
• Urban VIII, Onsen alderheyligsten vaders ende heeren Urbani des VIII. paus, suppressie van de vermeynde vergaderinghe der Jesuiterssen (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger)
• Geeraerd vanden Brande, Brandt in Liefde: Poemata ofte Gedichten (Antwerp, Geeraerdt van Wolsschaten the Younger)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Les trophées d'Ambroise de Spinola, celebrez par 6 orateurs, Flamen, Frison, Imperial, Brabanceau, Espagnol, et Italien (Leuven, Jacobus Zegers)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Tragoediae decem (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelius Coenesteyn)
• Johannes Wiggers, In tertiam partem D. Thomae Aquinatis commentaria (Leuven, Joannes Oliverius and Cornelis Coenesteyn)

Births

• Date uncertain – Nikolaus van Hoy, artist (died 1679)
• 8 March – Jacques Neutre, abbot (died 1679)
• 8 April (baptism) – Cornelis de Heem, painter (died 1695)
• 22 June – Francis Rombouts, mayor of New York City (died 1691)
• 28 November (baptism) – Abraham Brueghel, painter (died c. 1690)
• 10 December – Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, painter (died 1681)

Deaths

• Date uncertain
  • Charles, Duke of Aumale (born 1555), military commander
  • Tobias Verhaecht (born 1561), painter
• 11 January – Franciscus Haraeus (born 1555?), clergyman and cartographer
• August – Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau (born 1580), noblewoman
• 11 October – Marten Ryckaert (born 1587), painter
• 18 October – Servais de Lairuelz (born 1560), monastic reformer