Jean Lautte was a strong supporter of the Reformation, who was condemned to death for his religious beliefs, and was strangled to death and burned in the city of Ghent where, just a few years previously, in 1567, he had printed his Jardin des Armoiries with Gheraert Salenson's typeface.
This work, which is so rare that even the British Library possesses only two copies, both of which are incomplete, has an introduction in French and Dutch, and contains over 1000 coats of arms - engraved using the xylography technique - and the respective blazoning in French. The Belgian and Dutch nobility are represented, as are noble families from the adjacent countries and the Noble Lion de Flandres and the arms of Ghent, Bruges, Ypres and Vrye.