About Floris van der Haer
Lived 1547 – 1634 (aged 86–87). Floris van der Haer was a canon and historian.
Floris Van der Haer, also known as Florentius Haracus, (1547–1634) was a clergyman from the Habsburg Netherlands and an author of historical works.
He was born in Leuven in 1547 to a family from Utrecht. As a clergyman, he was attached first to St. Gertrude's Abbey, Leuven, and later to a canonry in Lille, where he died on 6 February 1634.
Works De initiis tumultuum Belgicorum (Douai, Jan Bogard, 1587; reissued Leuven, Judocus Coppens, 1640) Antiquitatum liturgicarum arcana (Douai, Balthazar Bellerus, 1605) Les chastelains de Lille, leur ancien estat, office et famille (Lille, Christophe Beys, 1611)
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Who was Floris van der Haer?
canon, theologian and historian (1547-1634)
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Floris van der Haer was born in 1547 in Leuven.
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Floris van der Haer died on 6 February 1634 in Lille.
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Floris van der Haer was a canon and historian.
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