Jacobus Maes

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Jacques or Jacobus Maes (1505–1569) was a lawyer and public servant in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Life[]

Jacobus was born in Antwerp in 1505, the son of Joannes Maes and Gommaire van Merle. After serving as pensionary to the city of Antwerp, he was appointed a member of the Brussels Privy Council by Mary of Hungary.[1] He unsuccessfully opposed the rigour of the new edicts against heresy issued in 1550.[1] At Charles V's abdication on 25 October 1555, Maes spoke on behalf of the Emperor's subjects.[1] He married Aleyde de Tassis, of the Thurn und Taxis family, and together they had four children: Engelbert, who became president of the Privy Council; Charles, who became bishop of Ypres and later bishop of Ghent; Jean-Baptiste, a member of the Council of Brabant; and Philippe, greffier to the States of Brabant,[1] who from 1610 to 1618 represented the Archdukes Albert and Isabella at the papal court.[2]

Jacobus Maes died in Brussels in 1569.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Louis Tierenteyn, "Maes (Jacques)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13 (Brussels, 1895), 135.
  2. ^ Bruno Boute, Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation (Leiden and Boston, 2010), p. 103.
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