Early Life
Arminius, born at Oudewater, Utrecht, became an orphan while still young. His father Herman (the name Arminius/Armin represents a Latinized form of Hermanszoon, "Herman's son") died, leaving his wife a widow with small children. His mother was killed during the Spanish massacre at Oudewater in 1575.
The pastor, Theodorus Aemilius, adopted Jacobus and sent him to school at Utrecht; but he died in 1574. Subsequently Rudolph Snellius brought him to Marburg, and enabled Arminius to study theology at the University of Leiden.
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