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Ordinis splendor. |
Théophile Ploegaerts, Curé of Corbais, was a Belgian historian devoted to research on Cistercian (mainly on nuns) in today's Belgium and its neighbors. Working as the pastor of Corbais from 1894 to 1937, he did assiduous archival research. His work has been forgotten by most, but the books he published between the world wars are eminently valuable and oftentimes the only reliable literature about women's houses in this part of Europe, with their long histories and fascinating personalities. Ploegaerts used severel archives, mainly the ones he could reach easily in Belgium at the Imperial Archives. Among the collections he used were: the archives of the Conseil privé sous le régime autrichien, les archives du Conseil d'État, Conseil Privé sous le régime Espagnol, les Papiers de l'Etat et de l'Audience, le Conseil Privé sous le régime autrichien, la Chancellerie de Brabant, les Archives générales du Royaume, and les archives de l'officialité de l'archevêché de Malines. Here is a list (partial, no doubt) of his valuable works.
Finally, not wanting to neglect research on his own parish, he also wrote L'histoire de Corbais remonte au Moyen Âge.
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