Anne du Bourg
Politician, Deceased Person
1521 – 1559
Who was Anne du Bourg?
Anne du Bourg was a French magistrat, nephew of the chancellor Antoine du Bourg.
Educated at the university of Orléans, he became professor and had Étienne de la Boétie as a student. He became counsellor of the Parliament of Paris in 1557. In 1559, during a mercurial, Du Bourg attacked the royal policy of repression against "those called heretics". He didn't make a secret of his Calvinist convictions. Henry II arrested him; after his death, the Guise monopolized power to the detriment of François II. After a trial, during which Du Bourg utilized all recourses of law, he was convicted as a heretic, to be hanged on the place de Grève and his body burned.
The Elector of the Palatinate pleaded mercy to the king, to name him professor of law at Heidelberg, but in vain. He died on December 23, after having declared at the gallows "My friends, I am not here as a thief or a martyr, but for the evangelium."
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- Born
- 1521
France - Also known as
- Дюбур, Анн
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- 1559
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on July 23, 2013
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