Leonard du Bus de Gisignies

Viscount du Bus de Gisignies
Viscount du Bus de Gisignies
	Viscount du Bus de Gisignies
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
	In office; 1826–1830
Preceded by	Godert van der Capellen
Succeeded by	Johannes van den Bosch
Speaker of the House of Representatives
	In office; 1818–1819
Preceded by	Jan Pieter van Wickenwoort Crommelin
Succeeded by	Arnold Hendrik van Markel Bouwer
Personal details
Born	Leonard Pierre Joseph Dubus; March 1, 1770; Mouscron, Province of Hainaut, Belgium
Died	May 31, 1849 (aged 79); Oostmalle, Province of Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Spouse(s)	Marie-Catherine de Deurwaerder (m. 1802; died 1836) ; Marie-Antoinette van der Gracht de Fretin (m. 1839⁠–⁠invalid year)
Children	Clémentine-Cathérine-François (daughter); Gustave-Bernard-Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (son); Bernard-Aimé-Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (son); Albéric du Bus de Gisignies (son); Constantin-Léonard-Anne-Francois-Marie-Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (son);
Mother	Marie Debrandrengluin
Father	Pierre Ignace du Bus
Military service
Branch/service	French Royal Army
Years of service	1802–1815

Leonard Pierre Joseph, Viscount du Bus de Gisignies (1 March 1770 – 31 May 1849) was a soldier and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Early life

He was born in Mouscron, Province of Hainaut, Belgium in 1 March 1770. He was born as Leonard Pierre Joseph Dubus, but on 14 June 1822, de Gisignies was added to his name.

He probably started to study law at Douai, but did not finish his education, because universities closed for some time during the French Revolution.

Career

He served in the French Royal Army from 1802 until 1815. On 21 September 1815, in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, he became a member of the House of Representatives of the States-General of the Netherlands for the province of West Flanders and on 20 September 1816, he was raised to Dutch nobility and was knighted in 24 November 1816, he later became its President during the meeting year from 1818 to 1819.

On 22 May 1819 he became a Viscount. He was made a commander in 20 July 1823 in the order of the Dutch Lion, and would received later on 6 July 1830 the cross in the same order.

Afterwards he had several administrative functions, first of all as Governor of the province of Antwerp in 3 April 1820 - March 1823, and from 25 March 1823 up to 9 May 1828 of the province of Zuid-Brabant (E: South-Brabant).

From 4 February 1826 up to 16 January 1830 he was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: Commissaris-Generaal) of the Dutch East Indies, for which he received an annual wages of 200,000 Guilders, with the condition that he also retained his function of governor of Zuid-Brabant. On 9 May 1828 he was appointed as Minister of State, but after the Belgian Revolution he was removed from this office on 18 October 1830. On 6 October 1830, he bought Renesse Castle in Oostmalle from Count Clement-Wenceslas de Renesse-Breidbach and renovated the castle in Empire style.

Personal life

In 20 July 1802, he married his first wife, Marie-Catherine de Deurwaerder, who died on 23 June 1836, He had 1 daughter and 5 sons from his first marriage:

Clémentine-Cathérine-François du Bus de Gisignies (Bruges, 7 August 1803-Kortrijk, 18 October 1817),
Knight Gustave-Bernard-Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (Bruges, 5 May 1807-Brussels, 23 September 1831),
Bernard-Aimé-Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 21 June 1808 - Brussels, 6 July 1874),
Viscount Albéric du Bus de Gisignies (Tournai, 30 May 1810-Brussels, 26 July 1874),
Baron Chrétien-Henri-Honoré-Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (Kortrijk, 17 September 1819-Brussels, 9 June 1835),
Viscount Constantin-Léonard-Anne-Francois-Marie-Joseph du Bus de Gisignies (Brussels, 11 October 1823-Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 16 November 1850).

He married his second wife Marie-Antoinette van der Gracht de Fretin on 20 November 1839.

Death

He died in Oostmalle, Belgium in 31 May 1849.

Sources

Bart De Prins, Léonard Du Bus de Gisignies (1780–1849), Belgian Commissioner-general in the Dutch East Indies: A Reassessment, Itnerario, 2000.
Bart de Prins, Voor Keizer en Koning, Leonard du Bus de Gisignies 1780 - 1849, Commissaris-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië, ISBN 90-5018-577-0
L.P.J. burggraaf du Bus de Gisignies (in Dutch)

gollark: Look, the main code is all right here, other stuff is... well, it's spread across a lot of files, but you can see it, check the `local files = whatever` bit and my pastebin account.

gollark: https://pastebin.com/RM13UGFa

gollark: I'm not saying much about the *other* exploit, because that would provide clues about it.

gollark: There are issues I know of in GPS (pretty obvious, hard to exploit, hard to patch), rednet repeaters (not useful to exploit, easy to patch, not too obvious), rednet itself (obvious, easily exploitable, but most people making serious programs are already aware), potatOS (very non-obvious, not a huge issue as accidental RCE still isn't possible, easy to exploit if you know how).

gollark: We should make CVEs for useless CC bugs!

External links

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Political offices
Preceded by Godert van der Capellen	Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1826–1830	Succeeded by Johannes van den Bosch
Preceded by Jan Pieter van Wickenwoort Crommelin	Speaker of the House of Representatives 1818–1819	Succeeded by Arnold Hendrik van Markel Bouwer

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