About Jacques Marchant
Lived 1537 – 1609 (aged 71–72). Jacques Marchant was a historian.
Jacobus Marchantius (1537–1609) was a historian and poet from the County of Flanders during the period that it was part of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Life Marchantius was born in Nieuwpoort in 1537 and studied Humanities at Leuven University. After graduating he became tutor to the children of Jean de Melun, lord of Antoing and Espinoy, accompanying them to Italy for two years. On returning to the Low Countries, he joined the Dutch Revolt. Elegiarum liber (Leuven, 1557), a collection of Latin verse De rebus Flandriae memorabilibus, liber singularis (Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1567) Flandria commentariorum lib. IIII (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1596), dedicated to Archduke Albert
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historian and poet (1537–1609)
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Jacques Marchant was born in 1537.
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Jacques Marchant died in 1609.
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Jacques Marchant was a historian.
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