Leonard du Bus de Gisignies

Viscount du Bus de Gisignies

Leonard Pierre Joseph, Viscount du Bus de Gisignies (Mouscron (Hainaut), 1 March 1770 – Oostmalle, 31 May 1849) was a soldier and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was born as Leonard Pierre Joseph Dubus, but on 14 June 1822, de Gisignies was added to his name. On 20 September 1816, he was raised to Dutch nobility and on 22 May 1819 he became a Viscount.

Personal life

He married twice (his first wife, Marie-Catherine de Deurwaerder, died on 23 June 1836, he remarried with Marie-Antoinette van der Gracht de Fretin on 20 November 1839). He had 1 daughter and 5 sons from his first marriage:

Clémentine-Cathérine-François (Bruges, 7 August 1803-Kortrijk, 18 October 1817),
Knight Gustave-Bernard-Joseph (Bruges, 5 May 1807-Brussels, 23 September 1831),
Bernard-Aimé-Léonard (Sint-Joost-ten-Node, June 21, 1808 - Brussels, July 6, 1874),
Viscount Albéric (Tournai, 30 May 1810-Brussels, 26 July 1874),
Baron Chrétien-Henri-Honoré-Léonard (Kortrijk, 17 September 1819-Brussels, 9 June 1835),
Viscount Constantin-Léonard-Anne-Francois-Marie-Joseph (Brussels, 11 October 1823-Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 16 November 1850).

Career

He probably started to study law at Douai, but did not finish his education, because universities closed for some time during the French revolution. He served in the French army from 1802 until 1815.

On 21 September 1815, in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, he became a member of the House of Representatives of the States-General of the Netherlands for the province of West Flanders and became its President during the meeting year 1818-1819. Afterwards he had several administrative functions, first of all as Governor of the province of Antwerp (3 April 1820 - March 1823) and from 25 March 1823 up to 9 May 1828 of the province of Zuid-Brabant (E: South-Brabant).

From 4 February 1826 up to 16 January 1830 he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: Commissaris-Generaal) of the Dutch East Indies, for which he received an annual wages of 200,000 Guilders, with the condition that he also retained his function of governor of Zuid-Brabant. On 9 May 1828 he was appointed as Minister of State, but after the Belgian Revolution he was removed from this office on 18 October 1830. On 6 October 1830, he bought Renesse Castle in Oostmalle from Count Clement-Wenceslas de Renesse-Breidbach and renovated the castle in Empire style.

He was knighted (24 November 1816) and a commander (20 July 1823) in the order of the Dutch Lion, and received on 6 July 1830 the cross in the same order.

Sources

Bart De Prins, Léonard Du Bus de Gisignies (1780–1849), Belgian Commissioner-general in the Dutch East Indies: A Reassessment, Itnerario, 2000.
Bart de Prins, Voor Keizer en Koning, Leonard du Bus de Gisignies 1780 - 1849, Commissaris-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië, ISBN 90-5018-577-0
L.P.J. burggraaf du Bus de Gisignies (Dutch)

External links

Media related to Leonard du Bus de Gisignies at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by G.A.G.Ph. Baron van der Capellen	Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1826–1830	Succeeded by Johannes van den Bosch
Preceded by Jan Pieter van Wickenwoort Crommelin	President of the House of Representatives 1818–1819	Succeeded by Arnold Hendrik van Markel Bouwer

Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies (1610–1949)

Dutch East India Company (1610–1800)	Both (1610–14) Reynst (1614–15) Reael (1615–19) Coen (1619–23) De Carpentier (1623–27) Coen (1627–29) Specx (1629–32) Brouwer (1632–36) Van Diemen (1636–45) Van der Lijn (1645–50) Reyniersz (1650–53) Maetsuycker (1653–78) Van Goens (1678–81) Speelman (1681–84) Camphuys (1684–91) Van Outhoorn (1691–1704) Van Hoorn (1704–09) Van Riebeeck (1709–13) Van Swoll (1713–18) Zwaardecroon (1718–25) De Haan (1725–29) Durven (1729–32) Van Cloon (1732–35) Patras (1735–37) Valckenier (1737–41) Thedens (1741–43) Van Imhoff (1743–50) Mossel (1750–61) Van der Parra (1761–75) Van Riemsdijk (1775–77) De Klerck (1777–80) Alting (1780–96)

Dutch East Indies (1800–1948)	Van Overstraten (1796–1801) Siberg (1801–05) Wiese (1805–08) Daendels (1808–11) Janssens (1811) British occupation (1811–16) Van der Capellen (1816–26) Du Bus (1826–30) Van den Bosch (1830–33) Baud (1833–36) De Eerens (1836–40) Van Hogendorp (1840–41) Merkus (1841–44) Reynst (1844–45) Rochussen (1845–51) Van Twist (1851–56) Pahud (1856–61) Van de Beele (1861–66) Mijer (1866–72) Loudon (1872–75) Van Lansberge (1875–81) s'Jacob (1881–84) Van Rees (1884–88) Pijnacker Hordijk (1888–93) Van der Wijck (1893–99) Rooseboom (1899–1904) Van Heutsz (1904–09) Idenburg (1909–16) Van Limburg Stirum (1916–21) Fock (1921–26) De Graeff (1926–31) De Jonge (1931–36) Van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (1936–42) Van Mook (1942–48)

High Commissioners	Beel (1948–49) Lovink (1949)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 30465865 SUDOC: 075935228 BNF: cb14598695j (data) BPN: 25031827

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