So that students in the Netherlands (which then covered the area of present-day Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg) wouldn't have to travel to Paris or Cologne to attend university, Pope Martin V gave official approval as early as 1425 to set up a university in what is now Belgium.
早在西元一四二五年，為解決尼德蘭（相當於現在的荷、比、盧三國）學生必須遠赴巴黎（今法國首都）或科隆（今德國西部）上大學的問題，教皇馬丁五世批准了在今比利時一帶設置大學。