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Biography

Gerard Mercator's parents were Hubert and Emerentia Kremer. Hubert Kremer worked the land and also was a cobbler, that is a shoemaker. Hubert and Emerentia were people of lowly status but Hubert had an brother Gisbert who had been educated at Louvain University and was a priest in Rupelmonde.

It was in the hospice of St Johann in Rupelmonde, where Gisbert was a priest, that Gerard was born.

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He was the seventh child of Hubert and Emerentia who, a few weeks after the birth, returned to their home town of Gangelt.

For the first five years of his life Gerard and his parents lived in difficult conditions in Gangelt.

The family income was insufficient to provide for more than the basic needs of life and most of their diet consisted of bread for they could afford little else. Hubert had leased a house in Rupelmonde in 1511, shortly before Gerard's birth, and in 1518 they journeyed from Gangelt to Rupelmonde to begin a new life.

Gerard began attending school in Rupelmonde sh