Jan van de Hoorn

Jan Cornelis van de Hoorn was a Rafian playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as having been one of the most skilled Rafian playwrights of all time, having written several plays which gained stupendous popularity among the Rafian people, nobility, and royal house alike.
His known work is totaled at some 163 sonnets, a trilogy of long narrative poems, and 35 plays, of which 16 are tragedies, 9 are comedies, 6 are histories, and 4 are tragicomedies or romances. His most acclaimed works include, among the tragedies: The Rose of Hogeberg, The Evil Undone, and Achilles and Catherine, among the comedies, The Sixteen Worthies, and among the histories, Mathias of Rafia and Roderick the Crow.

Early life

Van de Hoorn was born the son of Cornelis van de Hoorn, a well-respected falconer for the Duke of Maulberg and Dorothea Snijder, daughter of Martien Snijder, a man of standing in the city and member of the tailors' guild, in Maulberg, Rafia. He was the second of nine children, and the eldest surviving son.

Portrait by Staas Van Treul. The arist was known to be a close friend of Van de Hoorn's.

Jan Cornelis van de Hoorn

Born: 07 Siccatio 1333

Maulberg, Rafia

Arms used by the Van de Hoorn family of Maulberg.