Case file · Witch trials
Witch trials of the Spanish Netherlands
Between about 1450 and 1685, at least 1,150 people were executed for witchcraft in the southern Netherlands (today's Belgium and Luxembourg); trials peaked in Brabant in 1612.
1612 CE · 50.85, 4.35 · status: official
The account
A 1592 ordinance of Philip II urged judges to prosecute witches, and the duchy of Luxembourg saw some of the heaviest persecution.