Charles III Philippe van de Werve, 1st Count of Vorsselaer  Charles Philippe Henri Jean Baptiste van de Werve (1706–1776), 1st count of Vorselaar, formed part of a very old, important and noble family of Antwerp. He was the son of Baron Charles II Henri van de Werve, Lord of Schilde, Lord of Giessen-Oudkerk, Lord of Wavre-Notre-Dame and Lord of Wavrans; and his wife Eléonore-Louise de Varick. He was married to Marie-Anne de Pret, lady of Vorselaar, Rielen and Lichtaert. Her father Philippe Louis was Mayor of Antwerp, her mother descended of the House of Moretus. Charles III became the first count of Vorsselaer, Baron of Lichtaert and of Rielen. Philippe Louis de Pret, James de Pret de Calesberghe and Mechtilde van Hoorenbeeck, Anna Maria Moretus, Maria Anne de Pret and Charles III Philippe van de Werve, Joanna Maria Roose de Baisy, Philippe Antoine de Pret de Terveken are buried together in Saint-James in Antwerp. He was in military service of the Empress Maria Therese, and became in 1768 by imperial decree 1st Count of Vorsselaer, a lordship he had inherited from his father-in-law. The next year he entered the Nobility of Brabant. He was succeeded as Count of Vorsselaer by his eldest son Charles IV Bernard.