{{Infobox writer | name = Emanuel Sueyro | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = Knight of Christ | image = Emanuel Sueyro.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Emanuel Sueyro in his 37th year, engraved by Pieter de Jode I after Peter Paul Rubens, 1624 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1587|2|20}} | birth_place = Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|1629|||1587|2|20}} | death_place = Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands | resting_place = | occupation = spymaster | language = Spanish | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = Baroque | genre = history | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = ''Anales de Flandes'' (1624) | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = }} '''Emanuel Sueyro''' (1587–1629), Lord of Voorde, Knight of Christ, was an intelligence agent and historian in the 17th-century Habsburg Netherlands.

==Life== Of Portuguese descent, Emanuel Sueyro was born and brought up in Antwerp.<ref>V. Fris, "Sueyro (Emanuel)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique'', [http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2072.pdf vol. 24] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403112203/http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2072.pdf |date=2017-04-03 }} (Brussels, 1929), 253</ref> 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.<ref>J.J. Poelhekke, ''Het verraad van de pistoletten?'' (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, new series 88; Amsterdam, 1975) {{ISBN|0720482836}}</ref> For this work he was awarded a knightship in the Order of Christ. He was lord of Voorde by purchase.

==Writings== ===Histories=== * ''Descripcion breve del pais baxo'' (Antwerp, Gerard Wolsschaten, 1622) * ''Anales de Flandes'' (Antwerp, Peter and Jan Bellerus, 1624), dedicated to Philip IV of Spain

===Translations=== * Tacitus, ''Las obras de C. Cornelio Tacito'' (Antwerp, heirs of Peter Bellerus, 1613), dedicated to Albert VII, Archduke of Austria * Sallust, ''Obras de Caio Crispo Sallustio'' (Antwerp, G. Wolsschaten & H. Aerts for Jan Van Keerbergen, 1615), dedicated to Don Juan de Mendoza, Duke of the Infantado * Herman Hugo, ''Sitio de Breda rendida a las armas del rey don Phelipe IV'' (Antwerp, Plantin office, 1627), dedicated to Ambrogio Spinola

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=K2FTAAAAcAAJ Translation of Tacitus] (1613), at Google Books. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=ar06AAAAcAAJ Translation of Sallust] (1615), at Google Books. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=VDtTAAAAcAAJ ''Anales de Flandes'' part 1] (1624), at Google Books. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=isAbJ0dm420C ''Anales de Flandes'', part 2] (1624) at Google Books. * [https://books.google.com/books?id=glRbAAAAQAAJ ''Sitio de Breda''] (1627) at Google Books.

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