BARON

See also:

• CONSTANTINE

CONSTANTINE

See also:

• BRUNO (BRUN, BRUNS) OF QUERFURT, SAINT (c. 975-1009)
• BRUNO, GIORDANO (c. 1548-1600)
• BRUNO, SAINT
• BRUNO, or BRUN (925–965)

BRUNO KERVYN DE LETTENHOVE (1817–1891)  , Belgian historian, was born at Saint-Michel-les-Bruges 1817 . He was a member of the Catholic Constitutional party and sat in the Chamber as member for Eecloo . In 187o he was appointed a member of the cabinet of Anethan as minister of the interior . But his official career was short . The cabinet appointed as governor of Lille one Decker, who had been entangled in the financial speculations of Langand-Dumonceau by which the whole clerical party had been discredited, and which provoked riots . The cabinet was forced to resign, and Kervyn de Lettenhove devoted himself entirely to literature and history . He had already become known as the anther of a book on Froissart (Brussels, 1855), which was crowned by the French Academy . He edited a series of chronicles—Chroniques relatives a l'histoire de la Belgique sous la domination des ducs de Bourgogne (Brussels, 1870-1873), and Relations politiques des Pays Bas et de l'Angleterre sous le regne de Philippe II . (Brussels, 1882–1892) . He wrote a history of Les Hugenots et les Gueux (Bruges, 1883–1885) in the spirit of a violent Roman Catholic partisan, but with much industry and learning . He died at Saint-Michel-les-Bruges in 1891 . See Notices biographiques et bibliographiques de l'academie de Belgique for 1887 .