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Robrecht Holman (1521–1579) was the 36th
He died in Bruges on 29 December 1579 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the Poor Clares.
Two portraits of Holman were exhibited in the 1902 '' Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges''. Some scholars attribute these works to
abbot of Dunes
Ten Duinen Abbey or the Abbey of the Dunes ( nl, Abdij Ten Duinen) was a Cistercian monastery at Koksijde in what is now Belgium. It was one of the richest and most influential religious institutions in the medieval County of Flanders. It later rel ...
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Life
Holman was born inSluis
Sluis (; zea, label=Zeelandic, Sluus ; french: Écluse) is a town and municipality located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western Dutch province of Zeeland.
The current incarnation of the municipality has existed since 1 January ...
in 1521 and entered the Abbey of Dunes as a youth. In 1568 he was elected abbot. His abbacy was marked by the social instability arising from the opening years of the Dutch Revolt
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) (Historiography of the Eighty Years' War#Name and periodisation, c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and t ...
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He died in Bruges on 29 December 1579 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the Poor Clares.
Two portraits of Holman were exhibited in the 1902 '' Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges''. Some scholars attribute these works to Gillis Claeissens
Gillis Claeissens or Egidius ClaeissensAlso called: Gillis Claeissens the Elder, Egidius Claeis, Gillis Claeis, Egidius Claeissins, Gillis Claeissins, Egidius Claeys, Gillis Claeys (Bruges, 1526 – Bruges, 17 December 1605) was a Flemish painter ...
. B. Dewilde, 'Gillis Claeissens: een 'onbekende' schilder uit het zestiende-eeuws Brugge. Aanzet tot reconstructie van zijn oeuvre binnen de Claeissensgroep', Revue Belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 78, 2009, pp. 29–67
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holman, Robrecht 1521 births 1579 deaths Abbots of Dunes People of the Habsburg Netherlands