Memorial Plaque Margrave de Villalobar

To the left of the "Beluik der Executed",at the rear of the entrance gate of the court hangs a memorial plaque for Margrave de Villalobar.
It is a rectangular bricked slab of white natural stone with the text:

"To His Excellency
Margrave de Villalobar
Honorary Citizen of the City of Bruges
Envoy of his Catholic
Your Majesty King Alfonso XIII.
Great benefactor of
the Belgian people
1914 – 1918„

During the Great War,15 people were sentenced to death by the German court-martial in Bruges.Only 2 of them were pardoned, thanks to the intervention of Mayor Count Visart de Bocarmé to Anna De Beir (born Lowyck) and thanks to the intervention of Marquis de Villalobar (Spanish envoy to Brussels) to Ulysse Knapen. Both had been accused of espionage.

On October 17, 1926,at the initiative of C. Tulpinck,a memorial plaque was unveiled for the Marquis de Villalobar,in memory of the fact that the Marquis "saved the life of one of our fellow citizens" (Ulysse Knapen).

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck