and in the same year he sat in the Estates General of 1600 as the first member of the First Estate for the County of Artois. He died in Brussels on 2 July 1600. His will, drawn up on 13 January 1596, left a house and his library to found a college at the University of Douai. He had a reputation for generosity to the sick, prisoners, widows and orphans, and to clerical refugees from the Dutch Revolt, but as a fierce opponent of heresy and superstition. Further reading Pierre Debout, Vie de Mathieu Moullart, evêque d'Arras (1900) References 1530s births 1600 deaths Bishops of Arras Benedictine abbots People of the Eighty Years' War