Antwerp
Antwerp, BelgiumWestern EuropeAlso: Antwerpen
Port on the Scheldt in the Low Countries where William Tyndale lived and worked until his arrest.
Antwerp is a port on the Scheldt in modern Belgium. John Foxe says that William Tyndale, after his time in Germany, “had his most abiding in the town of Antwerp” until he was seized there and taken to the castle of Vilvoorde, eighteen English miles away (Foxe, Acts and Monuments vol. 5, pp. 119 and 123 (Cattley)). See Tyndale’s English New Testament.
What happened here
- 1526, firm dateTyndale’s English New Testament
William Tyndale, unable to work in England, has his English New Testament printed at Worms in 1526. The bishop of London bans it and Thomas More writes against it. Tyndale is strangled and burned at Vilvoorde in 1536.