Jacobus Yetzweirtius or Yetzweirt (born 1541) was a 16th-century nobleman who served in the
Army of Flanders and wrote about the 1572 retaking of
Oudenaarde
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Life
Yetzweirtius was born in
Bergues-Saint-Winoc in 1541, to a noble family of slender means. After travelling widely, he took service in the Army of Flanders as an
ensign
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Alphonse Roersch Alphonse Roersch (1870–1951) was a Belgian philologist, professor at the University of Ghent.Louis BakelantsNécrologie: Alphonse Roersch (1870-1951) '' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire'', 29 (1951), pp. 999-1001.
Life
Roersch was born in ...
, "Jacobus Yetzweirtius", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 29
(Brussels, 1956), 873-876. He took part in the retaking of Oudenaarde in October 1572, writing a Latin verse account of the action that was published in Ghent.
Little is known of his later life.
Works
* ''Aldenardias sive de subdola ac furtiva Guesiorum in civitatem Aldenardensem irreptione'' (Ghent,
Joannes Lapidanus, 1573)
On Google Books* Two pieces in
Jacobus Sluperius, ''Poemata'' (Antwerp,
Joannes Bellerus, 1575), pp. 289–291, 417–419
On Google Books
References
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1541 births
Year of death unknown
Date of death unknown
16th-century writers in Latin