About Jacobus Maes
Lived 1505 – 1569 (aged 63–64). Jacobus Maes was a lawyer.
Jacobus Maes or Jacob Maes (1505–1569) was a lawyer and public official in the Habsburg Netherlands, serving as the pensionary of the city of Antwerp and a member of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Life Jacobus was born in Antwerp in 1505 as the son of Joannes Maes and Gommarina van Merle. After serving as pensionary of the city of Antwerp, he was appointed a member of the Privy Council of the Habsburg Netherlands by Mary of Hungary, the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. Maes unsuccessfully opposed the rigour of the new edicts against heresy issued in 1550 but was not prosecuted for these actions. Maes had the honor of being responsible for responding on behalf of all states of the Habsburg Netherlands to Charles V's address at this occasion.
Jacobus Maes died in Brussels in 1569.
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Habsburg Netherlands lawyer (1505–1569)
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