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Nicolaas van Nieuwland, or Nicolas Van Nienlant (9 June 1510 – July 15, 1580) was a Dutch Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Haarlem and

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from 1562 to 1569 and as Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht (1541–?)."Bishop Nicolas Van Nienlant"
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Biography

Van Nieuwland became bishop when he was still young. On 6 Jul 1541, Nicolas Van Nienlant was appointed during the papacy of

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as Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht and

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of ''Hebron''. On 11 Sep 1541, he was consecrated bishop by

George van Egmond George or Joris van Egmont (c. 1504, in Egmond – 26 September 1560, in Saint-Amand Abbey) was a Christian religious authority and a bishop, who served as Bishop of Utrecht from 1535 to 1560. Biography George was the son of Jan III van Egmont ...

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, with Nicolas Bureau, Auxiliary Bishop of Tournai and

of ''Sarepta'', and Pascase Maupair,

of ''Selymbria'', serving as co-consecrators. It is uncertain how long he served as Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht.

Move of the Reguliers

In 1550 he managed the move of the ''Reguliers'', monks from the monastery in

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(where

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was educated) to a

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(also housing the

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) in Gouda. The former home of the reguliers in ''Land van Steyn'', ( :nl:Klooster Emmaüs te Stein), had been lost in a fire in 1549. The convent they moved to in Gouda, was renovated for them by order of

and the former

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was remodeled into a choir which housed eleven stained glass windows (today on display in seven windows in the Janskerk (Gouda) in the extra room called the ''Van der Vorm kapel''). Despite these renovations, the Regulierskerk did not survive long after that, because the monastery reverted to the state after the

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in 1580 and the church was torn down. For centuries the Catholic

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( :nl:Hofje van Buytenwech), which was founded on the grounds of the monastery in 1563, was allowed to remain on the Raam in Gouda, but this too was finally torn down in 1958. In 1580, before destroying the Regulierschurch, the expensive stained glass windows and the accompanying ''cartoons'' were moved to the Janskerk, where they were most recently restored in 1922 and given a separate chapel.

Diocese Haarlem

In 1559 a new diocese was introduced, the diocese Haarlem, and Nicolaas van Nieuwland became bishop of this new diocese on November 6, 1561. He entered the city on February 1, 1562 with a formal

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. Van Nieuwland also became abbot of Egmond Abbey at the same time. At the time that Van Nieuwland was in Haarlem, the

was gaining ground in the Northern Netherlands, and Haarlem was a seat of unrest due to the school there under the leadership of

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (152229 October 1590), also known as Theodore Cornhert, was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, theologian and artist. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship. Biogr ...

. Van Nieuwland was faced with a slowly shrinking Catholic population as the townspeople reverted to

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and followed Coornhert, who sided with

Lamoral, Count of Egmont Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (18 November 1522 – 5 June 1568) was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventuall ...

and

William the Silent William the Silent (24 April 153310 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from nl, Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange ( nl, Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch Re ...

, against the Catholic leaders of Van Nieuwland, the newly appointed

Frederik V Schenck van Toutenburg Frederik Schenck van Toutenburg (ca. 1503 – 25 August 1580) was the first Archbishop of Utrecht (1559–1580). Prior to Schenck's ministry as archbishop, Utrecht was a bishopric with a succession of sixty bishops. The last bishop of Utr ...

, who received his orders from

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

. Van Nieuwland's protector George van Egmond had died in 1559. Perhaps because of these developments, he became an alcoholic, and is registered as walking in processions drunk, earning him the local nickname ''Dronken Klaasje''. He was asked to step down in 1569, and he was replaced by

Godfried van Mierlo Godfried van Mierlo, O.P. (2 February 1518 – 28 July 1587) was a Dominican friar who served as the Bishop of Haarlem and the last direct Abbot of Egmond Abbey from 1570 to 1578. Biography Van Mierlo was born in the City of Helmond on 2 F ...

. Van Nieuwland returned to Utrecht, where he later died.

References

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