Antwerp
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
City where the 1609 twelve-year truce between Spain and Holland was concluded.
In 1608 Spain and Holland began negotiations which, on April 9, 1609, resulted in the truce of Antwerp for the period of 12 years, and, in the course of the negotiations, Spain tried to secure from the United Provinces a renunciation of their right to trade in the East and West Indies.
The Rights of War and Peace
City Grotius passed through after escaping imprisonment.
Descending the stone steps of the prison the bearers remarked that the trunk was heavy enough to contain an Arminian, but Madame Grotius’s jest on the heaviness of Arminian books smoothed over the suspicion, if one was really entertained, and the great jurist was sent in the chest safe to Gorcum, attended by a faithful domestic, where in the house of a friend the prisoner emerged without injury an …