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Alexandre, Pierre [pseud. Simon Alexius] (c. 1498–1563), prior of Arras and theologian  

Richard Copsey

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Alexandre, Pierre [pseud. Simon Alexius] (c. 1498–1563), prior of Arras and theologian, was born in Arras where he entered the Carmelite priory. He studied theology at Paris, gaining his doctorate there on 11 December 1534. This suggests he was born about 1498. Having become Carmelite prior at ...

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Erskine, John, of Dun (1509–1590), landowner and religious activist  

D. F. Wright

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Erskine, John, of Dun (1509–1590), landowner and religious activist, was born in the House of Dun, between Montrose and Brechin, the elder son of John Erskine of Dun (d. 1513), and of Margaret Ruthven (d. 1548), widow of Alexander Stewart, first earl of Buchan...

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La Cloche, Jacques de (1644/1647?–1669), pretended son of Charles II  

Giovanni Tarantino

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23 September 2004
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La Cloche, Jacques de (1644/1647?–1669), pretended son of Charles II, may have come from Jersey, but nothing is known of his early life or true parentage. He claimed to be the son of Charles II (1630–1685) and he named a woman in his will as '...

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Meetkerkevan, Adolf (1528–1591)  

Vivienne Larminie

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Ochino, Bernardino (c. 1487–1564/5), Capuchin friar and evangelical reformer  

Mark Taplin

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Ochino, Bernardino (c. 1487–1564/5), Capuchin friar and evangelical reformer, was, according to his later writings, born in Siena about 1487, the son of a barber, Domenico Tommasini. He is said to have taken his name from the district of Oca ('the goose...

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Papin, Isaac (1657–1709), theologian  

R. W. J. Michaelis

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Papin, Isaac (1657–1709), theologian, was born in Blois on 27 March 1657, the only son of Isaac Papin, receiver-general of the domains of Blois, and Madelaine Pajon, sister of the pastor and theologian Claude Pajon. Destined to be a Huguenot pastor but by all accounts a frail child, ...

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Primrose, James (1600–1659), physician  

William Birken

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23 September 2004
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Primrose, James (1600–1659), physician, the eldest of four sons of Gilbert Primrose (1566/7–1642), a Scottish minister in the French Reformed church, and his wife, Elizabeth Brenin (c.1567–1637), was born at Mirambeau, Saintonge. Much of his youth was spent in Bordeaux, to whose Reformed church his father had been called in 1603. He attended the ...

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Reina, Casiodoro de (c. 1520–1594), Reformed minister and translator  

Andrew Spicer

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22 September 2005

Reina, Casiodoro de (c. 1520–1594), Reformed minister and translator, was Spanish by birth, probably from Seville or nearby Montemolín. The names of his parents are not recorded. After graduating from the University of Seville he was ordained and then joined the Observantine Hieronymite monastery of ...