Costen van Halmale

Costen van Halmale (c. 1435–1508) was a lawyer and chronicler who served on Antwerp's city council.

He studied law at the University of Orléans, matriculating in 1457.

[1] Halmale was the initial author of a family chronicle that was continued by his son and grandson.

Known as the Annales Antwerpienses, this gave other historians an important view of family and political relations in 16th-century Antwerp.

[2] This manuscript is conserved in the Royal Library of Belgium.