Filips Wielant

Filips Wielant (1441/2–1520) was a magistrate and legal theorist in the Burgundian Netherlands, and a participant in the Flemish revolts against Maximilian of Austria.

Life Wielant was born in Ghent, the son of Jean Wielant, lord of Bavikhove, and Catherine de la Kethulle. His father, who died in Ghent on 1 July 1473, had served Philip the Good as secretary and was in 1463 appointed to the Council of Flanders. Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre, an overview of the history of the county of Flanders and its relations with its neighbours. A manuscript entitled Vorme ende concept tot het maken van eene Generale costume van het landt ende graefschap van Vlaenderen has also been attributed to Wielant, but doubtfully.