There is some truth to earlier claims that the experience of exile helped support the construction of the Dutch Reformed Church. Certainly, the pastors and elders who oversaw these migrant congregations understood themselves to be part of a broad transnational community of faith whose members supported one another through advice, charity, gentle reprimands, and shared information. However, we should not thereby conclude that transnationalism was unique to the Reformed tradition, nor should we see it as the natural outcome of the widespread experience of persecution and exile faced by Reformed Protestants. Rather, this orientation was probably just as much the same inheritance of medieval Christianity’s universalism that many other Christians inherited. This reorientation in examining this diasporic community encouraged us to begin tracing social networks between congregations—through ecclesiastical institutions, pastoral staffing, gifts of charity, correspondence, and letters of attestation—to understand the regional, transregional, and transnational relationships that migrants chose to maintain. What we found is that leaders of these churches did understand themselves to be part of a diasporic community of fellow believers from the Low Countries with bonds of mutual association and support. However, that did not mean that they necessarily saw themselves as tied to the new rebel state that began forming in the summer of 1572. That also did not mean that they prioritized a shared native language over affiliations of belief. Local, regional, and transregional bonds within the Empire—which transcended linguistic and political boundaries—also proved critical to their social networks. Earlier historians were not wrong when they described a kind of transnational Reformed identity that developed among Dutch migrant communities whose members were eager to liberate the fatherland for Christ’s church. However, they have stressed that identity at the expense of other forms of identity that crossed language and polity. Thus, by looking at the social networks migrants built, we are able to see the regional and transregional affiliations that were developing among the Dutch Reformed in the diaspora.