Background
Of Portuguese descent, Emanuel Sueyro was born and brought up in Antwerp.
head historian Knight of Christ
Of Portuguese descent, Emanuel Sueyro was born and brought up in Antwerp.
He translated classical and more recent Latin histories into Spanish, and wrote a two-part history of the Low Countries, Anales de Flandes (1624). He was head of a secret intelligence network in the Habsburg Netherlands, reporting to Philip III of Spain. He was lord of Voorde by purchase.