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List of governors of Luxembourg

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The following is a list of governors of Luxembourg.

From the 15th to the 19th centuries, the Duchy (later Grand-Duchy) of Luxembourg was ruled by the French, the Burgundians, the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs, and the Dutch.

From 1848 onwards, when Luxembourg received its first constitution, it started to be administered by a government in the modern sense of the word, one which was accountable to an elected Luxembourgish legislature.

Start date End date Name Notes
French Governors
1 September 1542 10 September 1542 Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (1496-1550)[1]
12 September 1543 1544 François d'Anglure (died 1544)
1544 6 August 1544 Francis I, Duke of Nevers (1516-1562)
Spanish Governors and Captains-General
2 July 1545 23 May 1604 Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (1517-1604) (French prisoner from 22 June 1552 to 18 May 1557)
1552 1553 Lamoral, Count of Egmont Representing Mansfeld
1553 1555 Martin van Rossem (1490-1555) Representing Mansfeld
1555 1556 Charles de Brimeu, Count of Megen Representing Mansfeld
September 1576 February 1577 Johann von Naves, sieur de Sivry Provisionally for Mansfeld
June 1604 1627 Florent, comte de Berlaimont (died 1627)
April 1627 1636 Christopher of East Frisia (1569–1636)
1636 1642 Philipp Dietrich von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1596-1653) Andrea Cantelmo (August 1637 to November 1637)
18 January 1642 1648 Johann von Beck (1588-1648) The first Luxembourger
15 January 1646 November 1646 Alonso, marchese Strozzi (Provisionally for Beck)
1648 19 June 1650 Philippe François de Croy, Duke of Havré (1610–1650)
1650 Gilles, marquis de Mollinguin (Provisionally)
August 1650 1652 Alonso, marchese Strozzi (Provisionally)
1652 1654 Francesco Sanchez de Pardo (Provisionally)
24 January 1654 12 January 1675 Philippe de Ligne-Arenberg, prince de Chimay et de Croy d'Arenberg (1619-1675) (a Duke from 9 June 1645)
1675 Jean-Charles-Chrétien de Sandas et Louvegnies, Baron de Grandcourt (Provisionally)
1676 Jean Charles de Watteville Marquis de Conflans (Provisionally)
1675 1680 John Francis Desideratus, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1626-1699)
1680 1684 Ernest-Alexandre Dominique de Ligne-Arenberg Croÿ, prince de Chimay et de Croÿ d'Arenberg (1643-1686)
French Governors
12 June 1684 July 1686 Henri de Lambert, marquis de Lambert et de Saint Bris, Baron de Citry (1631-1686) Lieutenant-General
10 August 1686 July 1687 Louis François, duc de Boufflers (1644-1711)
25 July 1687 1690 Nicolas Catinat (1637-1712) (a Lieutenant-General from March 1690)
1690 1697? Henri d'Harcourt (1654-1718)
1697 Louis-François du Parc, Marquis de Locmaria (1647-1709)
Spanish Governors and Captains-General
15 November 1697 1713 Graf Jean-Frédéric d'Autel (1645-1716) The second Luxembourger
Hessian Governors
1713 1714 Reinhardt Vincent von Hompesch (1660-1733)
1714 1715? Johann Rabo van Keppel (1671?- 1733)
Austrian Governors
5 January 1715 4 December 1716 Bertram Anton Freiherr von Wachtendonk
4 December 1716 17 April 1719 Johann Franz von Bronkhorst zu Gronsveld und Eberstein (d. 1719)
1719 July 1720 Maximilien de Pasqualini (died 1720)
1720 1722 Adolf Christian Freiherr von Galen (died 1722)
March 1722 27 April 1727 Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Unruhe (died 1727)
29 May 1727 October 1729 Graf Franz Anton Paul von Wallis (1677-1737)
October 1729 7 May 1730 Philippe Henri de Magawly, Baron de Cabry (1675–1756) 1st time Provisionally
7 May 1730 22 May 1731 Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684-1774) 1st time
22 May 1731 22 February 1732 Philippe Henri de Magawly, Baron de Cabry 2nd time, Provisionally
22 February 1732 5 May 1733 Adam Sigismund Freiherr von Thüngen (1687-1745) 1st time Provisionally Fort Thüngen
5 May 1733 22 June 1734 Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg 2nd time
22 June 1734 30 July 1736 Sigismund Freiherr von Thüngen 2nd time (provisionally)
30. July 1736 January 1737 Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg 3rd time
January 1737 April 1737 Georges Adolphe d'Olizy (died 1739) 1st time (provisionally) Fort Olizy
April 1737 May 1737 Antoine de Peissant, comte de Rumigny (died 1748) (Provisionally)
May 1737 January 1738 Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg 4th time
January 1738 16 May 1739 Georges Adolphe d'Olizy 2nd time (Provisionally)
1739 17 September 1742 Karl Urban, Count of Chanclos (1686-1761) Provisionally
17 September 1742 1743 Holtzapfel Provisionally
1743 March 1744 Melligny Provisionally
March 1744 1753 Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg 5th time
1753 20 October 1755 Eberhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (died 1767) 1st time (provisionally)
20 October 1755 1766 Ernst Dietrich Marschall von Burgholzhausen (1692-1771)
1756 1763 Eberhard Freiherr von Gemmingen 2nd time, provisionally for Marschall von Biberstein
1766 May 1773 Maximilian Friedrich Ernst forst von Salm-Salm (1732 -1773)
2 January 1767 1785 Christian Jakob Freiherr von Vogelsang Provisionally for Salm-Salm until May 1773
1 September 1785 7 June 1795 Blasius Columban von Bender (1713–1798) (in Opposition 15 December 1792 until 28 April 1793)
French Republic and Empire Governors
1800 1800 Johann Birnbaum
1800 1808 Jean-Baptiste Lacoste
1808 1814 André Joseph Jourdan
Dutch Governors
2 September 1815 31 December 1830 Jean Georges Othon Victorin M. Zacharie Willmar (1763-1831) Provisionally until 29 May 1817; his son Jean-Jacques Willmar later became prime minister
Dutch Governors-General
1 January 1831 5 March 1831 Jean Leclerc (1765-1836) Provisionally
5 March 1831 27 May 1831 Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)
Belgian Governors (in Arlon)
5 October 1830 16 October 1830 François d'Hoffschmit (1797-1854) (commissioner-general)
16 October 1830 1832 Jean Baptiste Thorn (1783-1841)
19 April 1832 21 September 1834 Jean N. Rossignon
21 September 1834 10 December 1834 Feuillien-Charles-Marie-Joseph de Coppin (1800-1887)
10 December 1834 19. January 1839 Victorin Jean François, baron de Steenhault (1791-1841)
Head of the government commission (in Luxembourg)
27 May 1831 18 June 1839 Friedrich Wilhelm von Goedecke (1771-1857)
Head of the civil administration
16 June 1839 21 October 1840 Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug (1794-1862)
21 October 1840 1 January 1842 Jean Baptiste Gellé (1777-1847)
Governor
1 January 1842 1 August 1848 Gaspar-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787-1871) Provisionally until 6 June 1842

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The New International Encyclopaedia. 1906.