Jacobus Marchantius

Jacobus Marchantius (1537-1609) masanin tarihi ne kuma mawaki daga County of Flanders a lokacin da yake wani ɓangare na Habsburg Netherlands . 

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PAn haifi Marchantius a Nieuwpoort a shekara ta 1537 kuma ya yi karatun Humanities a Jami'ar Leuven . Bayan kammala karatunsa ya zama mai koyarwa ga 'ya'yan Jean de Melun, ubangijin Antoing da Espinoy, ya bi su zuwa Italiya na tsawon shekaru biyu. Bayan ya dawo Low Countries, ya shiga Dutch Revolt . 

A shekara ta 1580 an nada shi shugaban Admiralty na Flanders, gwamnan Veurne, bailiff na Nieuwpoort, da kuma kwamishinan samar da 'yan bindiga a yammacin Flanders. Bayan sake mamaye Flanders a shekara ta 1583, ya yi ritaya daga rayuwar jama'a kuma ya zauna kusa da Alveringem .  Ya mutu a Brussels a shekara ta 1609, kuma an binne shi a cocin Dominican a wannan birni. Ɗansa, François Marchant, ya zama memba na Majalisar Brabant

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 Daga rebus gestis a Flandriae comitibus (Leuven, Antonius Maria Bergaingne, 1557)
 Elegiarum liber (Leuven, 1557), tarin ayoyin Latin
 De rebus Flandriae memorabilibus, liber singularis (Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1567)
 Flandria commentariorum lib. IIII (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1596), an sadaukar da shi ga Archduke Albert

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