 In these times many new monumental buildings were built (like the famous gothic style St. Jan's Cathedral of 's-Hertogenbosch), the activities of well-known painter Hieronymus Bosch (also called Jeroen Bosch) and the Latin school of 's-Hertogenbosch.In the Eighty Years' War, times turned bad for the Meierij.The area was literally a battlefield and was heavily plagued by continuous raids.