Floris Van der Haer explained

Floris Van der Haer, also known as Florentius Haracus, (1547–1634) was a clergyman from the Habsburg Netherlands and an author of historical works.^[1]

He was born in Leuven in 1547 to a family from Utrecht. As a clergyman he was attached first to St. Gertrude's Abbey, Leuven, and later to a canonry in Lille, where he died on 6 February 1634.^[2]

Works

• De initiis tumultuum Belgicorum (Douai, Jan Bogard, 1587; reissued Leuven, Judocus Coppens, 1640)^[3]
• Antiquitatum liturgicarum arcana (Douai, Balthazar Bellerus, 1605)^[4]
• Les chastelains de Lille, leur ancien estat, office et famille (Lille, Christophe Beys, 1611)^[5]

Notes and References

1. H. Brugmans, "Haer, Floris van der", Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, ed. P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen, vol. 7 (Leiden, 1927), 514.
2. http://data.bnf.fr/12072425/floris_van_der_haer/ Floris Van der Haer (1547-1634)
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=d-BfAAAAcAAJ De initiis
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=njNFAAAAcAAJ Vol. 1
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=y7wWAAAAQAAJ Les chastelains de Lille