[1] On 31 January 1563 he resigned in favour of Cornelius Jansen to become parish priest of the Church of Saint-Étienne, Lille.
When the rebels briefly took power in Saint-Omer, he refused to take an oath of loyalty to William of Orange, and on 22 April 1578 was banished from the city.
[1] On 6 May 1580, the governor general of the Habsburg Netherlands, Alexander Farnese, sent Six the royal letters naming him bishop of Saint-Omer.
[1] He died in Lille on 11 October 1586, while en route to attend a provincial synod in Mons.
[1] His secretary, Franciscus Lucas Brugensis, transported his heart back to Saint-Omer for burial there.