Siege of Antwerp by Maarten van Rossum
- When
- 1540
- Where
- Antwerp
- Episodes
- 1
Maarten van Rossum, a Guelders field marshal, is recorded in legacy data as besieging Antwerp in January 1540. The supplied passages confirm his identity and the city's location but do not contain textual evidence for the siege event itself.
Episodes
Background and detail
Background. Maarten van Rossum served as a military tactician and field marshal for the Duchy of Guelders. Antwerp is identified as a city in the Flemish Region of Belgium and the capital of Antwerp Province.
The Siege. Legacy records indicate a three-day siege of Antwerp by Rossum in January 1540. However, the provided source passages do not mention this specific engagement, its duration, or its outcome, leaving the event details unsupported by the retrieved text.
Sources
- Maarten van Rossum Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-22
- Antwerp Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-14
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.