Philip de Montmorency (1524 -
June 5, 1568,
Brussels) was also known as Count of
Horne.De Montmorency was born, between 1518 and 1526, possibly at the
Ooidonk Castle, as the son of Jozef van Montmorency, Count of
Nevele and Anna van Egmont. His father died in 1530 in Italy, and his mother remarried Johan II, Count of Horne/Hoorne, from which Philip inheited the County of Horne in 1540. A page and latere chamberlain at the court of
Charles V, he married Walburgis of Neuenahr in 1546. He became
stadtholder of
Guelders in 1555, an admiral of
Flanders, and a knight of the
Golden Fleece in 1556.
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