History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

Alps, sought refuge in the cities of the Netherlands,
bringing with them the Romaunt version of the
Bible, which was translated into Low Dutch
rhymes.[3]
The city of Antwerp occupies a most
distinguished place in this great movement. So
early as 1106, before the disciples of Peter Waldo
had appeared in these parts, we find a celebrated
preacher, Tanchelinus by name, endeavoring to
purge out the leaven of the Papacy, and spread
purer doctrine not only in Antwerp, but in the
adjoining parts of Brabant and Flanders; and,
although vehemently opposed by the priests and by
Norbert, the first founder of the order of
Premonstratensians, his opinions took a firm hold
of some of the finest minds.[4] In the following
century, the thirteenth, William Cornelius, also of
Antwerp, taught a purer doctrine than the common
one on the Eucharistic Sacrament, which he is said
to have received from the disciples of Tanchelinus.
Nor must we omit to mention Nicolas, of Lyra, a
town in the east of Brabant, who lived about 1322,
and who impregnated his Commentary on the Bible
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