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Gerardus Mercator
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
- Married to Barbara Schellekens, Gertrude Vierlings
- Dated 5 March 1512 CE – 2 December 1594 CE
Overview
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)Wikidata record description. Read Gerardus Mercator in the Wikipedia reader.
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
Family tree
The family as a list · 6
Family 6
- of the house Mercator family cartographic family of Mercator
- parent of (child) Arnold Mercator German cartographer
- parent of (child) Bartholomeus Mercator cartographer
- parent of (child) Rumold Mercator Flemish cartographer
- married to Barbara Schellekens 1515 - uncertain 24 Aug 1586
- married to Gertrude Vierlings
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 3
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Gerardus Mercator Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594) 
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