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2 unusual facts about Jan Utenhove


Jan Utenhove

It was on his recommendation that Valérand Poullain of Lille was brought over from Strasbourg as pastor of the French-speaking Protestant exiles at Canterbury.

Poullain organised an offshoot from this community at Glastonbury, under the patronage of Lord Protector Somerset.


Guido de Bres

Guy probably kept company with a number of refugees from continental Europe: Tremellius, Valérand Poullain, Martin Bucer, John a Lasco, Jan Utenhove, Marten de Klyne (Marten Micron or Micronius), Wouter Deelen, François Perucel de la Rivière and others.

Walter Deloenus

Deelen settled in Emden, Germany, where he worked with Jan Utenhove of Ghent on a translation of the New Testament into Dutch and edited the Dutch translation of reformation historian Johannes Sleidanus' De statu religionis commentarii.


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