Chaumont-Gistoux ( French pronunciation: [ʃomɔ̃ ʒistu] ; Walloon : Tchåmont-Djistou ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant . On 1 January 2006 Chaumont-Gistoux had a total population of 10,926. The total area is 48.09 km which gives a population density of 227 inhabitants per km .
17-563: François Auguste, Baron Lambermont (25 March 1819 in Dion-le-Val , Brabant – 7 March 1905), was a Belgian statesman. He came of a family of small farmer proprietors, who had held land during three centuries. He was intended for the priesthood and entered the seminary of Floreffe , but his energies claimed a more active sphere. He left the monastery for the University of Louvain . Here he studied law, and also prepared himself for
34-513: A conference held on the question at Brussels in 1863, and on 15 July the treaty freeing the Scheldt was signed. For this achievement Lambermont was made a baron . Among other important conferences in which Lambermont took a leading part were those of Brussels (1874) on the usages of war, Berlin (1884–1885) on Africa and the Congo region, and Brussels (1890) of Central African affairs and the slave trade . He
51-445: A fusion in 1971 of Dion-le-Val and Dion-le-Mont), Bonlez , Corroy-le-Grand, Longueville and Chaumont-Gistoux. The administrative offices are now in the village of Gistoux. It is a semi-rural municipality with several working farms, large areas given over to fields and forests, although there is a major industry of sand extraction , now mostly in decline. Due to this history there are now several haulage and construction firms based in
68-461: Is 14th in the Belgian line of succession . He had been as high as third in line, but the constitution was amended in 1991 to extend an equal right of succession to women, putting him behind his sister, Princess Astrid , and her descendants. Laurent's involvement with animal welfare and the environment , together with a relative lack of interest in protocol , has caused him to be dubbed by elements of
85-509: The Belgian Navy were spent on his residence ( Villa Clémentine ) in Tervuren . Although the investigating magistrates denied that Laurent was personally implicated, some of the accused have implicated the prince in the press. On 5 January 2007, it became known that King Albert II had signed a royal decree, making it possible for Laurent to be called up as a witness in the corruption trial which
102-519: The Royal Palace, possibly due to his role in the corruption scandal. In March 2011, the prince visited the former Belgian colony of the Congo without receiving the required permission; the reported purpose of the visit was to promote awareness of deforestation. As a result, on 9 April he accepted conditions laid down by Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme regarding his future activities; had he not done so,
119-596: The first Belgians to see the importance of developing the trade of their country, and at his own request he was attached to the commercial branch of the foreign office. The tolls imposed by the Dutch on navigation on the Scheldt strangled Belgian trade, for Antwerp was the only port of the country. The Dutch had the right to make this levy under treaties going back to the Treaty of Münster in 1648, and they clung to it still more tenaciously after Belgium separated herself in 1830-1831 from
136-431: The matter of his annual appanage would have been in question. In March 2014, Prince Laurent was hospitalised with pneumonia and depression. He was voluntarily placed in a medically- induced coma on March 25, and was awakened on 27 March. On 4 April, Queen Paola stated in a letter that Laurent's condition was improving, and that she felt he was 'the most vulnerable' of her three children. Prince Laurent does not hold
153-400: The military examinations. At that juncture the first Carlist War broke out, and Lambermont hastened to the scene of action to support catholicism and absolutism . His services were accepted (April 1838) and he was entrusted with the command of two small cannon. He also acted as aide-de-camp to Colonel Durando . He greatly distinguished himself, and for his intrepidity on one occasion he
170-572: The municipality. Bonlez, Chaumont, Corroy-le-Grand, Dion-le-Mont, Dion-le-Val, Gistoux, Longueville and Vieusart or (Vieux-Sart). This Walloon Brabant location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Prince Laurent King Albert II Queen Paola Prince Laurent of Belgium (Laurent Benoît Baudouin Marie de Saxe-Cobourg; born 19 October 1963) is the second son and youngest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola , and younger brother of King Philippe . Currently, he
187-658: The municipality. Chaumont-Gistoux is on the KW-line , a defensive line erected early in the Second World War , intended to prevent invasion from Nazi Germany . A small museum houses information about the line and many exhibits from the war. Princess Claire of Belgium grew up in Chaumont-Gistoux. The Coombs family still resides there to this day, and the Princess, her husband Prince Laurent and their children are often seen in
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#1732849001029204-808: The popular Belgian press as écolo-gaffeur (the eco-blunderer ). Prince Laurent was born on 19 October 1963 at the Belvédère Château in Laeken , northern Brussels . He was educated at the Royal Cadet High School and at the Royal Military Academy . Prince Laurent and Claire Louise Coombs were married in Brussels on 12 April 2003. Coombs was also given the title of Princess of Belgium upon her marriage. The couple have three children, who are fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth line of succession to
221-483: The throne respectively: The family live in Villa Clementine , in Tervuren . Prince Laurent is also a godfather to Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies , the daughter of Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro , a current pretender to the former throne of Two Sicilies and his wife, Princess Camilla, Duchess of Castro . In December 2006, Prince Laurent's name surfaced in a corruption scandal in which funds of
238-543: The united kingdom of the Netherlands, the London Conference in 1839 fixing the toll payable to Holland at 1.5 florins (3s.) per ton. From 1856 to 1863 Lambermont devoted most of his energies to the removal of this impediment. In 1856 he drew up a plan of action, and he prosecuted it with untiring perseverance until he saw it embodied in an international convention seven years later. Twenty-one powers and states attended
255-601: Was decorated with the Cross of the highest military Royal Military Order of Saint Ferdinand . Returning to Belgium he entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1842. He served in this department sixty-three years. He was closely associated with several of the most important questions in Belgian history during the last half of the 19th century, notably the freeing of the Scheldt . He was one of
272-497: Was joint reporter with Baron Alphonse Chodron de Courcel of the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, and on several occasions he was chosen as arbitrator by one or other of the great European powers. But his great achievement was the freeing of the Scheldt and in token of its gratitude the city of Antwerp erected a fine monument to his memory. Chaumont-Gistoux It was formed from the fusion, in 1977, of Dion-Valmont (itself
289-454: Was to start 8 January. One of the defendants immediately used this to subpoena the prince. During the evening of 8 January, Prince Laurent was interrogated by federal police, appearing in court the following day where he testified at the trial that he had no reason to believe the funding of his renovations could be illegal. Media reports in March 2007 suggested that Laurent was no longer welcome at
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