Erasmus

BIRTH

Oct 28, 1466

Born in Rotterdam Burgundian Netherlands Holy Roman Empire his father was a Catholic priest and thus could not marry so we was born out of wetlock

Erasmus may have learned to read and write in the small town of woerden

1471

At the age of 6 or 9 he and his family moved to Gouda and he started at the school of Pieter Winckel

1476

Erasmus when he was 9 or 12 was sent to a school of Latin in Deventer Netherlands

Period: 1476 to 1483

He was joined by his brother and this school was one of the best in the Netherlands his stay ended when plague hit the town

His Mother and Father died of bubonic plague

1483