Goswin de Fierlant

Goswin Anne-Marie Félix de Fierlant (ca. 1735—1804) was a holder of high office in the Austrian Netherlands who served on the Council of State, as the last president of the Great Council, and briefly as Chief President of the Privy Council.[1]

Goswin de Fierlant
president of the Great Council of Mechelen
In office
1773–1794
MonarchMaria Theresa (1740—1780), Joseph II (1780—1790), Leopold II (1790—1792)
Governor GeneralCharles Alexander of Lorraine (1744—1780), Maria Christina of Austria-Lorraine and Albert Casimir of Saxony (1781—1793), Charles of Austria-Lorraine (1793—1794)
Preceded byGuillaume-Ignace Pycke
Personal details
Bornaround 1735
Duchy of Brabant, Austrian Netherlands
Died(1804-02-19)19 February 1804
Brussels, Dyle, French Empire
Spouse(s)Marie-Thérèse de Nény
ParentsGuillaume de Fierlant and Anne-Catherine van den Broeck

Life

Goswin de Fierlant was born around 1735 to Guillaume de Fierlant, schout of Turnhout, and Anne-Catherine van den Broeck. He began his public career with the city council of Brussels. In 1768 he was appointed secretary to the Brussels Privy Council, and the following year became a privy councillor himself. On 28 August 1771 he married Marie-Thérèse de Nény, eldest daughter of Patrice de Nény, chief president of the Privy Council.[1]

By letters patent of 26 December 1773, Fierlant was appointed president of the Great Council, and the following January he was also made a Councillor of State. In 1787, during the reforms of Joseph II, he was transferred to Brussels as head of a new Council of Appeal, but when this project was abandoned he was reinstated as president of the Great Council, retaining the position throughout the political changes of the Brabant Revolution (1788—1793). In 1793, at the second Austrian restoration, he was appointed Chief President of the Privy Council. His career ended with the French invasion of 1794. He died in Brussels on 19 February 1804.[1]

Government offices
Preceded by
Guillaume-Ignace Pycke		 President of the Great Council
1773-1794		 Succeeded by
Council dissolved

References
  1. J. Lefèvre, "Fierlant, Goswin de", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 29 (Brussels, 1956), 573-576.
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