The Cappel family was a French family which produced distinguished
jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
s and
theologians in the 15th and 16th centuries. The family also took the Latin name Tillaeus based on the fief le Tilloy.
In 1491, Guillaume Cappel, as
rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of the
University of Paris, protested against a
tithe which
Pope Innocent VIII
Pope Innocent VIII ( la, Innocentius VIII; it, Innocenzo VIII; 1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death in July 1492. Son of th ...
claimed from that body. His nephew, Jacques Cappel (''Johannes Tillaeus'' in Latin; died 1541), the real founder of the family, was himself advocate-general at the
parlement
A ''parlement'' (), under the French Ancien Régime, was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the oldest and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. While both the modern Fre ...
of
Paris. In a celebrated address delivered before the court in 1537, against the emperor
Charles V, he claimed for King
Francis I Francis I or Francis the First may refer to:
* Francesco I Gonzaga (1366–1407)
* Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414–1450), reigned 1442–1450
* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France, reigned 1515–1547
* Francis I, Duke of Saxe ...
the counties of
Artois,
Flanders, and
Charolais. He left nine children, of whom three became
Protestants. The eldest, Jacques (1529–1586), sieur du
Tilloy, wrote several treatises on
jurisprudence.
Louis (1534–1586), sieur de
Moriambert, the fifth son, was a most ardent Protestant. In 1570 he presented a confession of faith to King
Charles IX in the name of his co-religionists. He disputed at
Sedan before the duc de Bouillon with the
Jesuit
, image = Ihs-logo.svg
, image_size = 175px
, caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits
, abbreviation = SJ
, nickname = Jesuits
, formation =
, founders ...
,
Jean Maldonat
Juan Maldonado (Maldonatus, Maldonation) (1533 in Casas de Reina, Llerena, Extremadura – 5 January 1583 in Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and exegete.
Life
At the age of fourteen or fifteen he went to the University of Salamanca, ...
(1534–1583), and wrote in defence of Protestantism. The seventh son, Ange (1537–1623), seigneur du Luat, was secretary to King
Henry IV, and enjoyed the esteem of
Sully. Among those who remained
Catholic should be mentioned Guillaume, the translator of
Machiavelli. The eldest son Jacques also left two sons, famous in the history of Protestantism:
Jacques (1570–1624), pastor of the church founded by himself on his fief of le Tilloy and afterwards at Sedan, where he became professor of
Hebrew, distinguished as historian, philologist and exegetical scholar; and
Louis.
He also used his latinized name Jacobus Tillaeus.
''Acta Eruditorum'': Jacques Cappel also known as Jacobus Tillaeus
/ref>
On the protest of Guillaume Cappel, see Du Bellay, ''Historia Universitatis Parisiensis'', vol. v. On the family, see the sketch by another Jacques Cappel, ''De Capellorum gente'', in the ''Commentarii et notae criticae in Vetus Testamentum'' of Louis Cappel, his father (Amsterdam, 1689).
References
*Eugene and Emile Haag, ''La France protestante'', vol. iii. (new edition, 1881).
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cappel Family
17th century in France
French families
French noble families