Hogenberg shows General Pardon proclaimed by Duke Alva on 16 July 1570 After the commotion over his introduction of the “tenth penny”, Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (better... More info
Hogenberg shows the Battle at Gembloux (Gemblours) on 31 January 1578 This was one of the biggest battles of the war. At “Gemblours”, the armies met Anton van Goignies and... More info
Hogenberg shows the battle at Vissenaken (Tienen) of 25 September 1576 Due to rumors of an attack by the revolutionaries on Spanish troops in Leuven, a Spanish equestrian army advanced... More info
Hogenberg shows the Spanish troops recapturing Huy on 31 March 1595 Huy was actually considered to be a neutral city. However, on 5 February 1595 rebel troops under Charles de... More info
...half of the 14th century these numbers began to decline. Flemish-speaking Ghent is today the third-largest city in Belgium, with a population of around 230,000.” (Taschen, Braun and Hogenberg, p.72.)... More info
Hogenberg shows the Malcontents taking Kortrijk (Courtrai) on 27 February 1580 When the Calvinists grabbed power in several Flemish and Brabant cities, like Ghentt, Bruges and Antwerp and started to... More info
...half of the 14th century these numbers began to decline. Flemish-speaking Ghent is today the third-largest city in Belgium, with a population of around 230,000.” (Taschen, Braun and Hogenberg, p.72.)... More info
El Escorial by Braun Hogenberg This bird’s eye view was published in the sixth and final part of the Braun and Hogenberg atlas of 1617 and it is virtually identical... More info
...Braun and drafted by the Mechelen (in Flanders) cartographer Frans Hogenberg. Hogenberg had just fled the religious wars in the Netherlands and arrived in Köln. A very desirable and early... More info
...tall Gothic Sint-Stevenskerk. This imperial and Hanseatic city was going through a troubled phase in Braun and Hogenberg’s time. In 1543 Nijmegen, together with Guelders, became Spanish as a result... More info