John IV

… at the behest of Duke John (Jean) IV of Brabant, who modeled its constitution after the University of Paris. In 1517 the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus became involved with the founding of Leuven’s Trilingual College, “the school of the new learning in Europe,” for the study of Greek, Latin, and…

After marrying her cousin, John IV, duke of Brabant, in March 1418, Jacoba fought against John of Bavaria in Holland. Her uncle John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, settled the dispute in 1419, but John of Bavaria gained control of Holland and Zeeland the following year, when the counties…