Talk:Pierre Coloma, Viscount of Dourlens

Lifespan and baptism
"don Pedro Coloma, Baron of Bornhem and Lord of Bobadilla (1587 - 1656)" is given with a reference I can't verify (assumedly some book but without mentioning its publisher and publication year).

In fact, this article's Pedro bought the barony of Bornhem already in 1586, on the 29th of July. The dates 1587-1656 belong to Pedro II Coloma, Baron of Bornhem. Pedro I Coloma, Baron of Coloma, had been born in Nájera at 5 in the morning of August the 16th in 1556, voici p.&#8201;&zwj;15, also confirming: He died at Brussels (one source said Born[h]em) on December the 27th 1621. The death of his elder brother Juan in 1591 made him Lord (i.e. Seigneur) of Bobadilla. Btw, 'Pedro I Coloma' without 'Baron of Bornhem' would be nonsense: e.g. his cousin Pedro Coloma, Lord (i.e. Seigneur) of Malón was his godfather in the Monastery of Santa María la Real, obviously the one of Nájera.

This is far from Pedro I having been "baptisez(sic) in the cathedral of Brussels", which is not surprising: He arrived in the Netherlands by the end of 1577 and unlike that elder brother and his cousin Carlos Coloma, stayed. In 1584 he became kind of the chief tax-collector ('contador mayor' or in French language sources "contador général", "contador principal"). Much, much later, on the 16th of May 1688 a son of Emmanuel Joseph Coloma was baptized Charles Ignace Joseph in Brussels in the Notre-Dame de la Chapelle, which is not the cathedral, but there might have been other Colomas baptized in Brussels, even already in the last quarter of the 16th century.

It might be easier if Coloma family (mentioning probably just as correctly Pedro I de Coloma and Pedro II de Coloma) would have their lifespans and titles. &#8203; ▲ SomeHuman 2019-09-03 16:17 - 2019-09-07 00:24 (UTC)

War or Peace
Pedro I Coloma, Baron of Bornhem, "rebuilt Bornem Castle after the war" — Pedro I and Pedro II, Barons of Bornhem, owned Born[h]em Castle and only the latter outlived the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). Having arrived in the Netherlands by the end of 1577 shortly after Alexander Farnese, it was of course the first who rebuilt the castle, though as yet I didn't figure out by reliable sources, when. Then perhaps the ceasefire of 1609, afterwards called the Twelve Years' Truce, a pause in one of history's longest running conflicts, might have given a clue — though I very much doubt him to have waited 23 years after having bought the property and the Wikipedia article about the castle states "A later castle was built on the foundations of the older building in 1587 by the Spanish nobleman Pedro Coloma, 3rd Baron of Bornhem" ... not much peace then: Farnese's great military feat was his 1578-1592 campaign in which however, in 1585 (finally Antwerp) he got the Southern Netherlands under control and safe enough to rebuild castles. Merely staying behind the active front line is not 'after the war'. &#8203; ▲ SomeHuman 2019-09-06 09:33 - 2019-09-07 07:37 (UTC)

Barons and Counts
He bought "the Heerlijkheid of Bornhem": A 'Heerlijkheid' was kind of a seignory. The 18th century historian Azevedo (see my above &zwj;'voici'&zwj; link) states him to have bought the barony of Bornhem. Though in many cases, such would be the same thing, in this particular case it is not: To my interpretation of the layout and language of that source, this 'barony' (by that term) was in fact already the entire châtellenie (French term, Dutch kasselrij&#8202;&zwj;), kind of a viscounty. In 'our' Pedro's time, the (large) County of Flanders had merely 17 of those and thus the Barony of Bornhem (a 'young' châtellenie: 15th century, the 16th of the 17) comprised Bornhem and 3 other villages, including one that had been called "de Stadt, Poorte ende Vrijheit van Sinte Marie..." ('the City, Gate and "Freedom" [which could impose taxes but usually not build walls or a ditch, though here it came behind Gate] of H. Mary...'), plus no less than 10 seignories/heerlijkheden. Not surprisingly then, Jean François Coloma, grandson of Pedro I Coloma, Baron of Bornhem, managed to become (hereditary) Count of [still the same size] Bornhem (under the recognizing powerful Count of Flanders and not directly under royalty), although 'our' Pedro I was a mere Baron, hereditary noble title officially granted by the Flemisch relevant highest court at Ghent in 1593, and so remained Pedro II, Baron of Coloma. Btw, this Pedro II Coloma is by his (also commonly used) French name Pierre, occasionally referred to as Pierre I Coloma with respect to his son, Jean François' younger brother Pierre II Coloma — whom I never found as 'Pedro' (though I'm not familiar with Spanish sources, which might use it), let alone 'Pedro III'. &#8203; ▲ SomeHuman 2019-09-07 08:55-12:07 (UTC)