sentences:  Pieter de la Court was born in Leiden, the son of Pieter de la Court the Elder and Jeanne des Planques.His parents were Protestant immigrants from Flanders, who settled in Leiden around 1613 in order to be able to practise their faith and to profit from the rapid expansion of Leiden as the world centre of cloth manufacturing.Pieter de la Court the Elder was a successful cloth merchant before he arrived in Leiden.