Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

CAPPEL

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

CAPPEL , a See also:

French See also:family which produced some distinguished jurists and theologians in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1491, See also:Guillaume Cappel, as See also:rector of the university of See also:Paris, protested against a tithe which See also:Innocent VIII. claimed from that See also:body. His See also:nephew, Jacques Cappel (d. 154,), the real founder of the family, was himself See also:advocate-See also:general at the See also:parlement of Paris, and in a celebrated address delivered before the See also:court in 1537, against the See also:emperor See also:Charles V., claimed for See also:Francis I. the counties of See also:Artois, See also:Flanders and Charolais. He See also:left nine See also:children, of whom three became Protestants. The eldest, Jacques (1529-1586), sieur du Tilloy, wrote several See also:treatises on See also:jurisprudence. See also:Louis (1534-1586), sieur de Moriambert, the fifth son, was a most ardent See also:Protestant. In 1570 he presented a See also:confession of faith to Charles IN. in the name of his co-religionists. He disputed at See also:Sedan before the duc de See also:Bouillon with the Jesuit, See also:Jean Maldonat (1534-1583), and wrote in de-fence of Protestantism. The seventh son, Ange (1537-1623), seigneur du Luat, was secretary to See also:Henry IV., and enjoyed the esteem of See also:Sully. Among those who remained See also:Catholic should be mentioned Guillaume, the translator of See also:Machiavelli. The eldest son Jacques also left two sons, famous in the See also:history of Protestantism:—Jacqucs (157o-1624), pastor of the See also:church founded by himself on his See also:fief of le Tilloy and afterwards at Sedan, where he became See also:professor of See also:Hebrew, distinguished as historian, philologist and exegetical See also:scholar; and Louis (see below).

On the protest of Guillaume Cappel, see Du Bellay, Historia Universitatis Parisiensis, vol. v. On the family, see the See also:

sketch by another Jacques Cappel, " De Capellorum gente," in the Cornmentarii et notae criticae in Vetus Testamentum of Louis Cappel, his See also:father (See also:Amsterdam, 1689). Consult See also:Eugene and Emile Haag, La See also:France protestante, vol. iii. (new edition, 1881).

End of Article: CAPPEL

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
CAPPADOCIA
[next]
CAPPEL, LOUIS (1585-1658)