 He was 19 or 20 years old at the time, based on the mentions of his age in a number of documents.From there, we can deduce that he must have been born in 1523 or 1524.At the occasion of the exhibition on Pieter Pourbus at the Gouda Museum in 2018, Paul Abels wrote in the catalogue of this exhibition about the role Gouda played in his life by putting what little is known about his ties to the city in the context of late-medieval religious and social life In Gouda.