He was a friend of the Antwerp printer Christopher Plantin and perhaps part of the secretive humanist circle of the Familia Caritatis (Family of Love), which makes it difficult to place him as Catholic or Protestant during the Dutch Revolt.
He was on friendly terms with the Antwerp printer Christopher Plantin and might have been a member of the Familia Caritatis, a secretive humanist circle that makes it challenging to determine whether he supported Catholicism or Protestantism during the Dutch Revolt.