Prof. Guido Marnef, University of Antwerp Gresham and Antwerp Prof. Guido Marnef, University of Antwerp
Ludovico Guicciardini Giovanni Zoncha
Demographic evolution of Antwerp 1496 ca. 40,000 1526 ca. 55,000 1542-43 ca. 84,000 1566 ca. 100,000 1568 89,996+14,085=104,081 1582 83,905 1589 ca. 42,000
Foreign merchants belonging to a nation Spaniards 300 Portuguese 150 Italians 200 Hanseatics High Germans Englishmen 100
House of Liere, Antwerp (1)
House of Liere, Antwerp (2)
Gaspar Schetz, merchant-banker House or mansion “St. Francis”, Lange Nieuwstraat
Mansion St. Francis
The Schetz family
Melchior Schetz
Christopher Pruynen, Antwerp merchant and treasurer of city government Paul van Daele, Antwerp merchant Gillis Hooftman, Antwerp merchant
Gillis Hooftman and his wife
Gresham’s mark
Jacob van Wesenbeke Antwerp town pensionary Studied law Many diplomatic missions Since 1567 in service of William of Orange