Maximiliaan de Vriendt, Latinized Maximus Æmilianus Vrientius (1559–1614), was a

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poet and a civic office-holder in the city of

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Life

De Vriendt was born at Zandenburg Castle,

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, on 31 January 1559, to Jacques Jacobs de Vriendt and Maria de Lattre. The family was from Ghent and returned there soon after his birth. He graduated

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from

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on 6 March 1578, and then spent some time studying law at the

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.G. Merlevede, "Vriendt (Vrientius), Maximiliaan de", '' Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek'', vol. 6 (Brussels, 1974), 995-1001. After touring Italy he returned to Ghent in 1579, but was banished from the city on 8 December 1583 for his opposition to the Calvinist regime that had come to power. He returned to Ghent in 1584, and on 14 or 15 May was apprehended and tortured. He was not released until 3 September 1584, when the city surrendered to the commander in chief of the

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, the

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. On 15 November 1584 De Vriendt was appointed secretary to the city, and on 12 January 1585 captain of a company of the watch. His first wife, Josyne de Harduyn, died 4 March 1585, and their newborn child shortly afterwards. Late in 1585 he remarried, to Josyne Vyts, a widow. As secretary of the city his duties included writing speeches, poems, inscriptions and chronograms for special occasions such as the

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into the city of a new ruler or governor. In July and August 1602 he attended the

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, reporting on events to the city council. On 19 April 1605 his daughter, Josyne, married Jean de Forneau, lord of Cruyckenburch. De Vriendt died in Ghent on 27 December 1614 and four days later was buried in the Dominican church in the city.

Works

*"Descriptio Pompae et Gratulationis publicae, ... a senatu populoq. Gandavensi ad Inaugurationem Flandriae Comitatus decretae", in Joannes Bochius, ''Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis Serenissimorum Belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae'' (Antwerp, Jan Mortus at the

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, 1602), pp. 317–344 - an account of the reception of

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and

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in Ghent. *''Epigrammatum Libri IX'' (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius, 1603). Reprinted in Innsbruck, 1607, and in Bruges by

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in 1627. *''Urbes Flandriæ et Brabantiæ'' (Leuven,

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, 1614).Urbes
on Google Books. *''Sacrorum Carminum'' (Leuven, Christophus Flavius, 1614).

References

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