Rombout
Rombout is a
Saint Rombout's name as Rumoldus, as in the first known mention in a pre-927 grant by Charles the Simple, mentioning that the Mechelen abbey had been built in his honor ("in honorem S. Rumoldi martyris constructam").[2]
- Saint Rombout(died between 580 and 655), in English known as "Rumbold of Mechelen"
- Rombout Hogerbeets (1561–1625), Dutch statesman
- Rombout II Keldermans (1460–1531), Belgian architect
- Rombout van Troyen (1605–1655), Dutch landscape painter
- Rombout Verhulst (1624–1698), Flemish-Dutch sculptor
- Catheryna Rombout Brett (1687–1764), American businesswoman
See also
- Rombouts, patronymic surname
- Rombout House, a historic home in Poughkeepsie, New York, on land bought by Francis Rombouts in 1683
- Rombout Patent, a grant issued by King James II of England in 1685
References
- ^ Rombout and Rombert in the Meertens Institute database of Dutch given names.
- ^ Sint-Rombout at the Mechelen encyclopedia website (with further sourres).
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