MEES, G., Lambertus Hortensius van Montfoort als geschiedschrijver.

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Lambertus Hortensius (1500-1574) was a Dutch historian ad humanist. He studied in Utrecht and at the University of Leuven. In 1544 he arrived in Naarden where he became rector of the Latin School. He witnessed the massacre that the Spaniards carried out in Naarden in 1572 and wrote about it in Rise and fall of Naarden.