Vonck, Jean-François

Vonck, Jean-François

▪ Belgian political leader
born Nov. 29, 1743, Baardegem, Austrian Netherlands [now Belgium]
died Dec. 1, 1792, Lille, France

      lawyer who led the democratic faction, the Vonckists, in the Brabant Revolution, the southern Netherlands' revolt against Austrian rule in 1789.

      Vonck worked as a lawyer in Brussels and in 1781 began to organize against the far-reaching administrative and religious reforms of Emperor Joseph II. He and his followers favoured a fully representative form of government, whereas the other revolutionary vanguard group of the southern Netherlands, the Statists, led by Henri van der Noot (Noot, Henri van der), sought a return to rule by the nobility and clergy. Vonck formed a secret society, Pro Aris et Focis (For Altar and Hearth), which gained widespread support, and then organized a volunteer army based at Liège and commanded by a former Austrian officer, Jean-André van der Meersch (Meersch, Jean-André van der).

      When the army joined van der Noot at Breda in 1789, after an Austrian invasion, the insurgents won a victory at Turnhout and gained control of the Austrian Netherlands. Vonck and van der Noot returned to Brussels in December 1789 to form a new but short-lived government, the United Belgian States. Van der Noot then exploited clerical opposition to Vonck's democratic views to force him into exile in March 1790. After the Austrians regained power in the southern Netherlands in December 1790, Vonck organized a legion to assist in the expected French liberation, which took place in November 1792. He died the following month.

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