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Succeeded by
  
Louis de Wellens

Political party
  
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Succeeded by
  
Jean-Charles, 5th Duke d'Ursel

Died
  
27 September 1860, Bornem, Belgium

Children
  
Léon d'Ursel, Ludovic-Marie d'Ursel

Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (Brussels, 9 August 1777 – Hingene, 27 September 1860) was a statesman and minister in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later Belgium.

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Family

Charles-Joseph was born as Count d´Ursel was the son of Wolfgang-William 3rd Duke d'Ursel and Flore Princess of Arenberg, a sister of Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg. He married to Josephine-Ferrero Fieschi, Princess of Masseran.

When his father died in 1804, he became the 4th Duke of Ursel and 4th Duke of Hoboken.

Children

  • Jean-Charles-Marie-Leo, 5th Duke d'Ursel (1805–1878): mar. Sophie d'Harcourt (1812-1842).
  • Ludovic-Marie, Count d'Ursel (1809–1886): mar. to Marie Louise Eve Gueulluy de Rumigny.
  • Marie-August, Countess d´Ursel (1815–1878).
  • Career

    In 1810 he was mayor of Brussels, in 1814 and 1815, commissioner-general for internal affairs in the provisional government in the southern Netherlands a position he also held from 1815 to 1819 under King William I. Minister of Works and Public Works. Years later, after the Belgian independence, he was a member of the Senate for the Province of Antwerp (1839–1847) and for the District of Mechelen (1847–1859).

    References

    Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel Wikipedia


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