Patrice Beaucourt de Noortvelde

Patrice Beaucourt de Noortvelde (8 January 1720 — 26 December 1796) was a historian, writer, and poet from the Austrian Netherlands.

Biography

Patrice (or Patricius) Antoine Beaucourt de Noortvelde was born in Bruges, County of Flanders, Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) on 8 January 1720.

He held the position of lawyer at the Council in Flanders and worked as a tax lawyer for the Tonlieu of Bruges.

He authored a historical description of the Church of Our Lady in Bruges in 1773, featuring a chronological account of all the religious figures and a compilation of ancient and modern epitaphs from this church.

Death

Patrice Beaucourt died in Bruges, Département de la Lys, French First Republic (now Belgium) on 26 November 1796.

Family

He had a son named Charles Jacques Joseph and a daughter named Marie Joséphine Isabelle.

Works

• Description of the lordship and lands of the provost extending within and the city of Bruges, 1764
• Historical Description of the Church of Notre Dame in Bruges (), 1773
• Year books of the land of the Free (), 1785
• Faithful Table of the Troubles and Revolutions in Flanders from 1500 to 1586 ()

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