Adriaen Stalpaerts

Adriaan Stalpaerts (1563–1629) was an abbot of Tongerlo Abbey, either the 36th or the 41st depending on the sources followed.

Life Stalpaerts was born in Hilvarenbeek in 1563 and entered the Premonstratensian Order on 20 April 1585. He professed his vows on 1 May 1586 and was ordained a priest on 23 May 1587. In 1593 he was appointed parish priest of Hoogeloon, transferring to Waalwijk in 1599.

On 24 August 1607 Stalpaerts was elected coadjutor to Abbot Nicolaas Mudtsaerts, with the government confirming the election on 21 October 1607. He then studied at Douai University until November 1608, when Mudtsaerts died and Stalpaerts succeeded him as abbot. He took possession of the abbacy on 1 December 1608, and was consecrated by Bishop Ghisbertus Masius on 11 January 1609.

He died at Duffel on 25 October 1629, while travelling back from the installation of the abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp. On his deathbed he was visited by Bishop Michael Ophovius. and Leonardus Lessius' De summo bono et aeterna beatitudine hominis (1626).