Franciscus Monachus, (c. 1490 – 1565) was born Frans Smunck in Mechelen (or Malines) in the Duchy of Brabant (in modern-day Belgium).[1][2] His Latinised name, adopted when he matriculated at the University of Louvain, is translated as simply Francis the monk. Franciscus Monachus was identified as the Latinised form of his name, Frans Smunck, in his obituary notice.[3] He is remembered as the cartographer who created the first terrestrial globe in the Low Countries.
^Horst (2011) p49
^Karrow (1993) gives possible alternative surnames: Munnink, Munnicks Smunck Le Moyne
^L. Ceijssens, “Een dubbele Doodenlijst van het oud-Minderbroedersklooster te Mechelen (1460-1795)”, Bulletin du Cercle Archéologique, Littéraire et Artistique de Malines, = Handelingen van den Mechelschen Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren & Kunst, 1938, deel 43, pp. 55-82, p. 70, no. 221; Benjamin de Troeyer, Bio-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, Nieuwkoop, B. De Graaf, 1969, Vol. I, pp.101-106; n.b. p.104,
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