| Robrecht Holman | |
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| Abbot of Ten Duinen Abbey | |
Robrecht Holman adoring the Saviour of the World | |
| Elected | 1568 |
| Term ended | 1579 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1521 Sluis, County of Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands |
| Died | 29 December 1579 Bruges, County of Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands |
Robrecht Holman (1521–1579) was the 36th abbot of Dunes. [1]
Holman was born in Sluis in 1521 and entered the Abbey of Dunes as a youth. In 1568 he was elected abbot. His abbacy was marked by the stresses of the opening years of the Dutch Revolt. He died in Bruges on 29 December 1579 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the Poor Clares. [2]
Sluis is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands.
The Dutch Revolt (1568–1648) was the revolt of the northern, largely Protestant Seven Provinces of the Low Countries against the rule of the Roman Catholic Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, hereditary ruler of the provinces. The northern provinces (Netherlands) eventually separated from the southern provinces, which continued under Habsburg Spain until 1714.
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis – are members of a contemplative Order of nuns in the Catholic Church. The Poor Clares were the second Franciscan Order to be established. Founded by Saints Clare of Assisi and Francis of Assisi on Palm Sunday in the year 1212, they were organized after the Order of Friars Minor, and before the Third Order of Saint Francis. As of 2011 there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. They follow several different observances and are organized into federations.
Two portraits of Holman were exhibited in the 1902 Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges . [3]
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| Preceded by Pierre Helline | Abbot of Dunes 1568 – 1579 | Succeeded by Laurent van den Berghe |
