Adolf van Meetkercke

Adolf van Meetkercke (1528–1591) was a Flemish diplomat and humanist.

Life He was born in Bruges, into a wealthy family of the nobility.

In 1577, after the Pacification of Ghent, he travelled to England on a diplomatic mission concerned with the First Union of Brussels, with the Marquis of Havrech (Havré), Charles Philippe de Croÿ (1549–1613). He accompanied Philip Marnix of St. Aldegonde to France, to negotiate the Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours with François of Alençon. He was then appointed as chairman of the Flemish governing council.

He died in London in 1591.

Works Hubert Goltzius published his translations of Moschus and Bion of Smyrna in 1565.

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He wrote a commendatory poem for the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius.

Family He married the widow of Jean Wijts of Bruges. With Jacoba Cerbina he had four sons: Adolf, Nicolaas, Anthony, and Baldwin.

Margaret, daughter of John Lichtervelde, was his second wife; Edward Meetkerke, an English clergyman, was his son with her. There was another daughter of this marriage, Salome.