1630 in Belgium

Events in the year 1630 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

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

 * March – Peter Paul Rubens concludes a secret diplomatic mission to London.
 * 20 April – Officials of the County of Flanders mandated to conserve and repair the coastal dunes, prohibiting hunting or the grazing of lifestock in them.
 * 15 November – Conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630)

Publications

 * Antonio Abbondanti, La Giuditta e le rime sacre, morali, e varie (Liège, Jean Ouwerx), dedicated to Pierluigi Carafa
 * Adrien de Fléron, Promulsis Elogii Tilliani (Liège, Jean Ouwercx).
 * Aubertus Miraeus, Notitia ecclesiarum Belgii (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert), dedicated to Philip IV of Spain
 * Erycius Puteanus, De begginarum (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)
 * Cornelius Thielmans, Seraphische historie van het leven der heyligen des oordens S. Francisci van Assysien (Leuven, Cornelis Coensteyn)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Gaspar de Crayer
 * Portrait of Ferdinand de Spoelberch
 * Portrait of Anna de Grimaldi
 * Anthony van Dyck
 * Madonna and Child with Two Donors
 * The Mocking of Christ
 * Rest on the Flight into Egypt
 * Samson and Delilah
 * The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Cimon and Pero
 * Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars

Births

 * 22 February – Jean-Baptiste Christyn, councillor (died 1690)
 * 26 November – Jean Herman Voeller, secretary of state (died 1710)


 * Date uncertain
 * Louis Philip of Egmont, nobleman (died 1682)
 * Jacques-Théodore de Bryas, clergyman (died 1694)

Deaths

 * 24 January – Antoine de Balinghem (born 1571), Jesuit writer
 * 3 March – William Stanley (born 1548), military commander
 * 12 May – Joanna de Hertoghe (born c. 1566), Cistercian abbess
 * 25 May – Géry de Ghersem (born 1573/75), musician
 * 25 July (burial) – Jan Tilens (born 1589), painter
 * 17 August – Lodewijk Makeblijde (born 1565), Jesuit poet
 * 27 August – Hendrick de Clerck (born c. 1560), painter
 * 25 September – Ambrogio Spinola (born 1569), military commander
 * 9 October – Engelbert Maes (born 1545), councillor
 * 5 November – Charles Malapert (born 1581), Jesuit astronomer