Jacobus Yetzweirtius

{{short description|16th c. Flemish nobleman}}

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.

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.Alphonse Roersch, "Jacobus Yetzweirtius", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, [https://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2088.pdf 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). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4bVNAAAAcAAJ On Google Books]
  • Two pieces in Jacobus Sluperius, Poemata (Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, 1575), pp. 289–291, 417–419. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ASlXAAAAcAAJ On Google Books]

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