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Robrecht Holman (1521–1579) was the 36th abbot of Dunes.
He died in Bruges on 29 December 1579 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the
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 Jan ...
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) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Re ...
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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
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare ( la, Ordo sanctae Clarae) – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis ...
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Two portraits of Holman were exhibited in the 1902 '' Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges''. Some scholars attribute these works to Gillis Claeissens. 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
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holman, Robrecht 1521 births 1579 deaths Abbots of Dunes People of the Habsburg Netherlands