Flemish Franciscan. Alost, c. 1530 - Louvain, 5 September 1578. Registered as a student at the University of Louvain in 1546, he later became a Franciscan monk and author of a number of apologetical treatises in Latin and Dutch. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 14, 1897, Columns 528-529; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica saeculi XVI, II, 1970, pages 167-175.