Floris Van der Haer

Floris Van der Haer, also known as Florentius Haracus, (1547–1634) was a clergyman from the Habsburg Netherlands and an author of historical works.[1]

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.[2]

Works
  • De initiis tumultuum Belgicorum (Douai, Jan Bogard, 1587; reissued Leuven, Judocus Coppens, 1640)[3]
  • Antiquitatum liturgicarum arcana (Douai, Balthazar Bellerus, 1605)[4]
  • Les chastelains de Lille, leur ancien estat, office et famille (Lille, Christophe Beys, 1611)[5]

References
  1. H. Brugmans, "Haer, Floris van der", Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, ed. P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen, vol. 7 (Leiden, 1927), 514.
  2. Floris Van der Haer (1547-1634), entry in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed 23 March 2017.
  3. De initiis on Google Books
  4. Vol. 1, vol. 2 on Google Books.
  5. Les chastelains de Lille on Google Books
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