Maximilien de Wignacourt
Maximilien de Wignacourt, alternatively Vignacourt or Vignacurtius was a writer in Latin and French in the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
Wignacourt was born in Arras in 1560, a nephew of the renowned jurist François Baudouin. In the late 1570s he studied at the University of Leuven under Justus Lipsius, to whom he wrote a letter on 9 November 1586. In 1582 he entered the service of Bernardino de Mendoza in England, and on his recommendation seems to have become a hanger-on at the court of Philip II of Spain. His poems of commemoration and congratulation for powerful figures provided a meagre income. By 1602 he was attached to the court in Brussels. He died in Leuven on 21 November 1620.Works
- Sereniss. Parmae et Placentiae ducis nominis anagrammatismus
- Discours sur l'estat des Pays Bas, auquel sont déduictes les causes de ses troubles et calamitez et leurs remèdes. .
- Serenissimi Ernesti adventum gratulatur Belgicae Maxaemyliani V.
- In res Belgicas deinosis. .
- Antistitis praecellentis euphemia. Congratulatory verses on the occasion of Nicolas Mainfroy's enthronement as abbot of Saint-Bertin.
- Preliminary verses included in Estienne Ydens, Histoire du S. sacrement du miracle reposant à Bruxelles. .
- ''Pro eutrapelia seriis interposita per Isabellam Claram Eugeniam, regiam ex Hispania progeniem, archiducem Austriae, principem ditionum Belgicae Inferioris apologia''