Hendrik van der Noot

Karel Hendrik Nicolaas van der Noot (also Noodt, French Henri -Charles -Nicolas; German Heinrich Karl Nicholas, * January 7, 1731 or 1750 in Brussels, † January 12, 1827 in Strombeek in Grimbergen ) was a Belgian lawyer and politicians. He played an important role in the Brabant Revolution.

Life

Van der Noot was a lawyer at the Supreme Council of Brabant. He declared himself openly against the Reformation attempts of Joseph II in the Austrian Netherlands and therefore had to flee; he came back in 1788; around him gathered the discontented and formed in Breda, the Comitée of Brabant.

Van der Noot declared himself the agent of the Brabant estates and at the same time that Joseph II had ceased to reign over Brabant. Soon he gathered a corps of volunteers, whose leader Colonel January Andries Vander Mersch was. The Austrians were attacked in October 1789 and since the uprising quickly spread across the whole country, distributed and van der Noot moved into Brussels. Soon began factions and dissensions; 1790 advanced the Austrians before again and van der Noot had on 2 December 1790 Brussels flee. He went to Holland; an attempt in 1792 to re-appear on the political stage, he failed. In 1796 he was arrested at Bergen op Zoom to requisition the French authorities and taken to Hertogenbosch and lived released to Brussels.

Source

• Noot. In: Heinrich August Pierer, Julius Lobe (eds.): Universal Dictionary of the past and present. 4th edition. Vol 12, Altenburg 1861, p 24 (online at zeno.org ).