title: Hondius
text: # Hondius
  
  Hondius can refer to two possibly unrelated families of engravers and cartographers, who both moved from Flanders to the Dutch Republic in the 1590s:
  
  * Amsterdam family originating from Ghent:
     * Jodocus Hondius (1563–1612)
        * Jodocus Hondius II (1593–1629), first son of Jodocus I
        * Hendrik Hondius II (1597–1651), second son of Jodocus I
  * The Hague family originating from Duffel:
     * Hendrik Hondius I (1573–1650)
        * Willem Hondius (c. 1598–1650s), one of his sons
        * Hendrik Hondius III (1615–1677), another son
  