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Emanuel van Meteren

Emanuel van Meteren, from his book Historien der Nederlanden, en haar naburen oorlogen tot het iaar 1612, 1614

Emanuel van Meteren or Meteeren (1535 – 11 April 1612) was a Flemish historian and Consul for "the Traders of the Low Countries" in London. He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Ottilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius.