Don Pedro Coloma (1556–1621), Baron of Bornhem (currently Bornem) and Lord of Bobadilla, was a Spanish nobleman and an officer in the Army of Flanders, who established a branch of the House of Coloma in the Habsburg Netherlands.
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Family
Coloma was born in Nájera on 16 August 1556, the son of Juan Coloma, a knight in the Order of Santiago, and Doña Maria Fernandez, Lady of Bobadilla. In 1585 he married Jeanne l'Escuyer, Viscountess of Dourlens (currently Doullens), with whom he had three sons: Alexander, a captain of light cavalry, who succeeded him but died childless in 1625; Diego, who served as a gentleman in the household of Philip III of Spain; and Pierre, who continued the line.
Career
Coloma arrived in the Low Countries in 1577, to fight against the Dutch Revolt, and in 1586 bought the lordship of Bornhem in Flanders. He built a manor house on the site of Bornem Castle. He also restored and improved the medieval duck decoy on the estate, and in 1603 founded a religious community that is now Bornem Abbey.
He died in Brussels on 27 December 1621 and was buried in Bornem.