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Шаблон:Infobox writer Emanuel Sueyro (1587–1629), Lord of Voorde, Knight of Christ, was an intelligence agent and historian in the 17th-century Habsburg Netherlands.

Life

Of Portuguese descent, Emanuel Sueyro was born and brought up in Antwerp.[1] He translated classical and more recent Latin histories into Spanish, and wrote a two-part history of the Low Countries, Anales de Flandes (1624).

He was head of a secret intelligence network in the Habsburg Netherlands, reporting to Philip III of Spain.[2] For this work he was awarded a knightship in the Order of Christ. He was lord of Voorde by purchase.

Writings

Histories

  • Descripcion breve del pais baxo (Antwerp, Gerard Wolsschaten, 1622)
  • Anales de Flandes (Antwerp, Peter and Jan Bellerus, 1624), dedicated to Philip IV of Spain

Translations

  • Tacitus, Las obras de C. Cornelio Tacito (Antwerp, heirs of Peter Bellerus, 1613), dedicated to Isabel Clara Eugenia
  • Sallust, Obras de Caio Crispo Sallustio (Antwerp, G. Wolsschaten & H. Aerts for Jan Van Keerbergen, 1615), dedicated to Don Juan de Mendoza, Duke of the Infantado
  • Herman Hugo, Sitio de Breda rendida a las armas del rey don Phelipe IV (Antwerp, Plantin office, 1627), dedicated to Ambrogio Spinola

References

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External links

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  1. V. Fris, "Sueyro (Emanuel)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1929), 253
  2. J.J. Poelhekke, Het verraad van de pistoletten? (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, new series 88; Amsterdam, 1975) Шаблон:ISBN