Jean II de Croÿ
Jean II de Croÿ (1390? – Valenciennes, March 25, 1473), was Count of Chimay and progenitor of the line of Croÿ-Solre.
Jean II belonged to the powerful House of Croÿ.
He was the second surviving son of Jean I de Croÿ and Marie de Craon.
His elder brother was Antoine I de Croÿ.
Jean II de Croÿ was a prominent member of the Burgundian court.
He governed Hainaut and Namur in the name of the Dukes of Burgundy as "grand bailli de Hainaut".
His dominions were centred on the town of Chimay, of which he became the first count.
In 1430, he was made one of the very first Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
He had been godfather to Charles the Bold in 1433 and to the Dauphin in 1459.
In 1435 he played an important part in the formation of the Congress of Arras.
He was subsequently charged with bringing the city of Amiens under Burgundian control.
In 1436 he commanded the Burgundian-Flemish army that besieged Calais and was blamed for the complete failure of the expedition.
During the Revolt of Ghent (1449–1453), he lifted the siege of Oudenaarde and in 1453, he defeated William I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel at Thionville, securing the Duchy of Luxembourg for Burgundy.
He was also amongst those who took the Vow of the Pheasant in 1454.
Jean had a great influence on Philip the Good, for which he was hated by Charles the Bold.
When Charles the Bold came to power in 1465, he exiled Jean, as well as his son Philip I of Croÿ-Chimay and his brother Antoine I de Croÿ.
Jean only reconciled with Charles in 1473, the year of his death.
Jean I de Croÿ
Jean I de Croÿ, Seigneur de Croÿ et d' Araines, Baron de Renty et de Seneghem( around 1365 – October 25, 1415), was the founder of the House of Croÿ.
Charles II de Croÿ
Charles II de Croÿ (31 July 1522 – Quiévrain, 24 June 1551) was Seigneur de Croÿ, 2nd Duke of Aarschot, 3rd Prince of Chimay and 3rd Count of Beaumont.
He was the eldest son of Philippe II de Croÿ, Duke of Aarschot, and Anne de Croÿ, Princess of Chimay.
After his mother's death in 1539, he inherited the Principality of Chimay, and after his father's death in 1549, the Duchy of Aarschot, thus uniting for the first time the two great titles of the House of Croÿ .
He married in 1541 Louise de Lorraine (1521–1542), daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and younger sister of Mary of Guise, who was married to King James V of Scotland.
Mary, Queen of Scots was his niece.
After the early death of Louise, he married Antoinette of Burgundy (1529–1588) in 1549.
Antoinette was the sister of Maximilian II of Burgundy, who was married to Charles' sister, Louise de Croÿ (1524–1585).
Charles de Croÿ was murdered in 1551 in Quiévrain.
Because he had no children, all his titles and possessions went to his younger brother Philippe III de Croÿ.
His widow later married Jacques d’Anneux, Seigneur d‘Aubencourt.
Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ
Anne-Emmanuel-Ferdinand-François de Croÿ Prince of Solre and Duke of Croÿ (10 September 1743 - 15 December 1803) was a French soldier of the 18th century who attained the rank of "Maréchal de camp".
He served as a member of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 representing the Bailiwick of Le Quesnoy, Hainaut.
He had previously served as a member of the Assembly of Notables in 1788 and 1789.
Withdrawing from France during the French Revolution, he received the sovereignty of Dülmen in Westphalia after the Congress of Ratisbon (1797).
Anne was the only son of Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, the 7th Duke of Croÿ.
Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre
Emanuel de Croÿ-Solre, Duke of Croy
(June 23, 1718 - March 30, 1784) was a French soldier of the 18th century who attained the rank of Marshal of France.
The only son of Philippe-Alexandre-Emmanuel de Croy, he was born a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
After the attempted assassination of King Louis XV by Robert-François Damiens, he was sent to Artois, to investigate and reconstruct the route of the assassin.
He was raised to the rank of Marshal of France on June 13, 1783, and he died in Paris on March 30, 1784 at the age of sixty-six.
A. E. de Silva
Albert Emmanuel de Silva Snr. was a prominent businessman during the late 19th century in Sri Lanka.
William de Croÿ (bishop)
William de Croÿ( known as Guillaume de Croÿ in French and Guillermo de Croÿ in Spanish);( 1497 – 7 January 1521) was Archbishop of Toledo from 1517 – 21.
He was born in the Burgundian Netherlands and died in Worms, Germany.
Charles III de Croÿ
Charles III de Croÿ (Beaumont, Hainaut, 1 July 1560 – Beaumont, 12 January 1612) was Seigneur de Croÿ, 4th Duke of Aarschot, 5th Prince of Chimay and 5th Count of Beaumont.
He played an important role on both sides of the Dutch Revolt.
He was an avid collector of art and coins.
Antoine I de Croÿ
Antoine I de Croÿ(" the Great" or" Le Grand de Croÿ"), Seigneur de Croÿ, Renty and Le Roeulx, Count of Porcéan( c. 1383/ 1387 – September 21, 1475), was a member of the House of Croÿ.
Antoine was the eldest surviving son and heir of Jean I de Croÿ and Marguerite de Craon, and was a key figure in 15th- century French politics.
In 1452, he secured for himself the post of Governor General of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and presided over the pro-French party at the court of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
He was also one of the judges at the trial of John II of Alençon for treason in 1458.
Like his father, he led the French and Burgundian armies against Liège and distinguished himself at the Battle of Brouwershaven, fighting against the English.
While on a mission to the court of King Charles VII of France, he was implicated in the assassination of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, and as a consequence, suffered torture in the Château de Blois.
Having extricated himself from this predicament, Antoine used his power to expand his family's possessions: in 1429 he obtained the lordship and peerage of Le Rœulx; three years later, he married Marguerite of Lorraine- Vaudémont, daughter of Antoine, Count of Vaudémont and Marie of Harcourt, who brought Aarschot to his family as her dowry.
In 1437, he married his daughter Jeanne to Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, in order to increase his influence in the orbit of the Holy Roman Empire.
He acquired Porcien in 1438, and was made Count of Porcéan and of Guînes by King Charles VII later in 1455.
In 1446, he purchased the Château de Montcornet and completely rebuilt it.
In 1455, he proceeded with the building of the Kasteel van Arenberg on the site of a demolished Medieval castle, of which he had destroyed all but one tower; the château would not be completed until 1515, by his grandson, William de Croÿ.
With Charles the Bold, the future Duke of Burgundy, he was at loggerheads, especially after they had clashed over the inheritance of Jeanne d' Harcourt, Countess of Namur.
Upon Charles's accession as Duke, Antoine was accused of plotting with astrologers to bring about the Duke's downfall and was compelled to flee to France.
In France, he took part in the coronation of King Louis XI and was chosen as a godfather to the future king, Louis XII.
It was not until the age of 83 that he reconciled himself with Charles the Bold and was allowed to reclaim his properties in Burgundy.
He died either in 1475 or 1477 and was interred in Porcien.
Agnes de Croÿ was his sister and the mistress of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy( the grandfather of Charles the Bold), by whom she had an illegitimate son, John of Burgundy, who became the Bishop of Cambrai and the Archbishop of Trier.
Several noble families of Belgium and the Netherlands are descended from the eleven illegitimate children of this prelate.
The lines of Croÿ- Arschot- Havré and Croÿ- Roeulx stem from Antoine's two sons, Philippe I and Jean III, while his younger brother, Jean II de Croÿ, was the progenitor of the only extant line of the family, that of Croÿ- Solre.
All three lines demonstrate a complex pattern of intermarriage, so that estates and titles would stay within the family as long as possible.
Philippe II de Croÿ
Philip II de Croÿ( 1496 – 1549) was Seigneur de Croÿ, Count of Porcéan and first Duke of Aarschot.
Philip belonged to the powerful House of Croÿ.
He was the eldest son of Henry de Croy, and Charlotte de Châteaubriand.
His grandfather was Philip I of Croy, his uncle William II de Croÿ, chief tutor and First Chamberlain to Charles V, and his younger brother was William III de Croy, Archbishop of Toledo.
Philippe II de Croÿ succeeded to the County of Porcéan upon his father's death in 1514.
In 1521 he inherited the titles of his uncle William: amongst others, Duke of Soria and Archi, and Count of Beaumont.
Like his predecessors, he was Governor of Hainault and Senior Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, but it is as Charles V's general that he is best remembered.
He fought against the French in the Italian War of 1521 – 1526, and played an important role in the conquest of Tournai( 1521).
On April 1, 1533 Charles
V created Philippe(" our cousin", as he styled him) Duke of Aarschot and Grandee of Spain First Class.
Earlier, he had become Marquess of Renty and exchanged the lordship of Longwy in Lorraine for that of Havré, which his descendants would develop as a family nest.

Question: Where did Anne Emmanuel De Croÿ's father die?
Answer: Paris