Title: Hieronymus Francken I
Content:   Hieronymus Francken I or Hieronymus Francken the Elder (ca. 1540, Herentals&ndash;1610, Paris) was a Flemish painter and an important member of the Francken family of artists. After training in Antwerp, he was mainly active in France, where he became court painter at the French court. His compositions with elegant groups of dancing figures, musicians and courtiers anticipate the development of this genre in the 17th century.
Title: Hieronymus Francken I
Content:  Hieronymus Francken I was born in Herentals as the son of Nicolaes Francken, a painter from Herentals. His father later settled in Antwerp and was likely his first teacher. His brothers Frans Francken I and Ambrosius Francken I both became successful painters. According to the early 17th century biographer Karel van Mander, who referred to him three times using three different names, i.e. Ieroon Francken van Herenthals, Ieroon Vrancks, and Ieroon Franck, Francken was a pupil of Frans Floris. He probably went to work with Floris in the early 1560s. It is unclear whether he traveled to Italy after his training in Antwerp. Such a 
Title: Hieronymus Francken I
Content:  is suggested by a work of his hand dated 1565 that depicts a scene from the Carnival of Venice (in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen). From 1566 to 1572 he was in France where he was one of the masters employed to decorate the Palace of Fontainebleau. Cornelis Floris, the Antwerp architect and brother of Francken's master Frans Floris, sent his son to Paris in 1568 to train with Hieronymus Francken I. Hieronymus became a master in Paris in 1570 and a naturalized French citizen in 1572. This did not stop him from returning to Antwerp regularly. In 1571 he was back in Antwerp to finish 
Title: Hieronymus Francken II
Content:  Hieronymus Francken the Younger or Hieronymus II (Antwerp, 1578 &ndash; Antwerp, 1623) was a Flemish painter and one of the most prominent members of the large Francken family of artists. Along with his brother Frans Francken II he played an important role in the development of new genres in Flemish art in the early 17th century.
Title: Hieronymus Francken II
Content:  Hieronymus Francken II was the son of Elisabeth Mertens and Frans Francken the Elder. His father was a painter born in Herentals who had moved with his painter father to Antwerp. There he had become one of the principal painters during the Counter-Reformation. Hieronymus had three brothers who were painters: Thomas, Frans II and Ambrosius II. Hieronymus received his first training from his father. He was entered into the books (liggeren) of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1605 as a pupil of his uncle Ambrosius. Ambrosius Francken I had trained with Frans Floris and had worked some time in Fontainebleau. In 1607 Hieronymus Francken II was formally admitted as a master of the Antwerp Guild. In 1609 he likely spent time in Paris, where like his brother Frans II, he may have studied under his uncle Hieronymus Francken I. Hieronymus Francken I worked most of his career in Paris and Fontainebleau and was a court painter to the French court from 1594. Hieronymus Francken II returned to Antwerp where he spent the rest of his career. From 1616/17 he worked as "ionckmann" (bachelor) in the house of his father Frans Francken I (1542-1616).
Title: Hieronymus Francken III
Content:  Hieronymus Francken III (1611, Antwerp &ndash; 1671, Antwerp), was a Flemish Baroque painter and a well known member of the Francken family of artists.
Title: Constantijn Francken
Content:  Francken was born in Antwerp as the son of Hieronymous Francken III and Cornelia Daep. He was baptised on 5 April 1661. He was the final artist in the Francken family of artists, which had played an important role in Flemish paintings since the second half of the 16th century and whose large workshop was a standard of quality artistic production in Antwerp. Constantijn's father Hieronymous was the son of Frans Francken the Younger, the most famous scion of the Francken dynasty. There are several attributions of work to Hieronymous but none authenticated. Hieronymous died in 1671 and cannot have played a 
Title: Frans Francken III
Content:  Francken was born and died in Antwerp. He was the son of Frans Francken II and Elisabeth Placquet and became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1639. He was dean of the Guild of St. Luke in 1656-66. He was the teacher of Carstian Luyckx, and Jan Baptist Segaert.
Title: Francken family
Content: Hieronymus I (ca. 1540 &ndash;1610): he became a court painter in France. ; The history and genre painter Isabella Francken probably was his daughter ; Frans I (1542 &ndash; 1616): he was a leading Counter-reformation painter in Antwerp. ; Ambrosius I (1544 &ndash; 1618): he became known for his religious works and historical allegories painted in a late Mannerist style. Nicolaes Francken had three sons who became painters after training under their father and Frans Floris : 
Title: Hieronymus Francken I
Content:  served a large number of kings and queens including Louise de Lorraine (in 1578, 1587 and 1588), Henry III of France (in 1583), the Queen-mother Catherine de' Medici (in 1586, 1600 and 1603) and Henry IV of France (in 1603 and 1610) as well as Marie de' Medici (in 1603). Near the end of his life, in 1607, Hieronymus was elevated to the nobility and could from then onwards refer to himself as 'noble homme, peintre du roy' ('nobleman, painter to the king'). Hieronymus Francken I was the teacher of Abraham Bloemaert during Bloemaert's short stay in Paris and Fontainebleau from 1581 to 1583.

Question: In what city was Hieronymous Francken I born?
Answer: Herentals.