Guillaume Budé (1467-1530) part 2: Dutch descendants in the academy

In continuation of my last post I will place here beneath a lineage showing the descendance of Ida Elisabeth Bothenius (married to Jan Lohman) from the humanist Guillaume Budé. This is a quite interesting descendance story.

From France descendants went - amongst others - to Geneva, to openly practise Calvinist faith. From there, descendants went to Leiden, to teach at University. Since then, descendants live in the Netherlands.

Guillaume Budé (1467-1530)

I. Guillaume Budé, seigneur de Marly-la-Ville, etc., born at Paris 26 January 1467, died at Paris 23 August 1540. Influential humanist, son of Jean Budé and of Catherine le Picart. He married to Roberte le Lieur, converted to Calvinism at Geneva, died Geneva 15 april 1550, daughter of Roger le Lieur and of Isabeau de Lailly.

II. Marguerite Budé, born 1530, died at Geneva 27 April 1618. She married Guillaume de Trie, merchant, born at Lyon, Calvinist, one of Calvin's correspondents, died at Geneva in 1561.

Joseph Duchesne (-1609)

III. Anne de Trie, married (1) Matthieu de Sève, échevin at Lyon, who died 1572. She married (2) to Joseph Duchesne, (Josephus Quercetanus), seigneur de la Violette, an alchemist, physician, firstly of Francis, duke of Anjou, later for Henry IV. He also was diplomat with missions in Switzerland. He was born in Armagnac, became Calvinist, and died in 1609. He was follower of Paracelsus and wrote about alchemy.

IV. Jeanne Duchesne, dame de la Violette, married to Pierre du Port, seigneur du Mouillepied. Older books mention Jeanne as married to Joachim du Port, with Pierre as their son, but this is chronologically tight, and newer books only show her as married to Pierre.

Friedrich Spanheim (1600-1649)

V. Françoise-Charlotte du Port, born in Paris, died at Geneva in 1648. She married Prof. Friedrich Spanheim, theologian and philosopher. He first became professor philosophy at the University of Geneva. In 1642, he moved to Leiden to teach theology at Leiden University. He believed strongly in the Calvinistic principle of predestination, which he defended against Amyraut. Friedrich Spanheim was born in Amberg, 1600, and died at Leiden in 1649. He was son of Wigand Spanheim, a theologian, and of Renée Tossanus, daughter of Daniel Tossanus, also a theologian.

Among their children were Ezechiel Spanheim and Friedrich Spanheim the Younger. We will continue with the less important of the brothers:

Henricus Geldorpius (1600-1652),
father of Ida Geldorpius.

VI. Andreas Spanheim,  land agent in Groningen, baptised at Leiden 8 May 1643, died in 1727. He married at Amsterdam in 1681 Ida Geldorpius, baptised at Amsterdam 19 February 1645, daughter of Henricus Geldorpius, a preacher, and of Neeltje Elberts Pool.

VII. Elisabeth Catharina Spanheim, baptised in Groningen 23 October 1683. She married Louis Bothenius, mayor of Groningen, baptised at Groningen 12 August 1677, son of Dr. Henricus Bothenius, a philosopher, and of Adriana Trip, from the rich merchant family.

VIII. Ida Elisabeth Bothenius, baptised at Groningen 7 April 1706, died 12 March 1756. She married Jan Lohman, a colonel, born at Groningen 18 July 1701, son of Hendrik Lohman and of Elisabeth Tammen.

They have living descendants.

The French humanist Guillaume Budé (1467-1530). Part 1: his life

The ideas of humanism has contributed to a significant extant to the ideas of the Renaissance. Humanist learned to know the Classics from the original texts.

A significant humanist from France is Guillaume Budé (1467-1530).

Guillaume Budé (bron: wikimedia.org)

Budé was born at Paris in 1467 as member from a family with many people working in court. His father was a counselor of the king.

Budé began studying law in Orléans, but did not finish it. It might not have been the right study for him, or he may have had not enough motivation. He by himself said that he 'spoilt his youth by dealing with horses and hunting.' Only at 23, he got interested in literature.

By then, he started to read rapidly the books from his father's library, and spent most of his money on books in Latin and Greek. He went on autodidactic tour and learnt himself Latin and Greek, becoming more fluent in the last one. He may be regarded as one of the greatest specialists in Greek language of his time. To me it is not known if he also mastered Classical Hebrew, the 'third classical language.' His son Louis Budé knew it, because he taught the language in Geneva.

Budé also learned philosophy, theology and medicines. It is not clear to which extant he knew these subjects.

As his father, he became secretary at court under Louis XII. In this time Budé travelled to Venice and Rome. These travels may have influenced his humanist thoughts.Under king François I, who was fond of Budé, Budé's influence rose.

His knowledge of the Latin and Greek language brought him to the idea to restore the classic education in France. Real Christian students had to not only learn the Bible and the writings of the church fathers, but also especially classical and original texts. This would give the students the skill to recognize truth whenever they encounter a text.

He suggested the king the idea building a school in which Greek, Hebrew and mathematics should have been taught.  In 1530, the school was built and got the name Collegium Trilinguae. Today, the school is known as the Collège de France. Budé asked the Dutch humanist Erasmus to lead the school, but he refused.

Budé also was involved by setting up the Bibliothèque de Fontainebleau, which later moved to Paris to become the Bibliothèque National.

Budé lived in a religiously restless time, when the church began falling apart. By himself, he stayed Catholic till his death. It is however claimed that towards the end of his life he developed Calvinist tendencies. In 1540 he died in Paris. He made the awkward request to bury him at night.

His widow, Roberte le Lieur, and his family certainly was Calvinistic, and went to Geneva. Budé's son-in-law, Guillaume de Trie, was a friend of Calvin himself.

From his actions, Budé clearly can be seen as a humanist. His intention for building the Collegium Trilinguae, make clear he attached importance to studying original sources in their original languages.

From his books, Budé's interest in the Classics can be drawn. In his book "Annationes in XXIV libros Pandectarum", he compares Roman pandectae, in where Roman law is described, and molded it in a standard work on Roman law.

In 1514, Budé gained publicity from his book "De asse et partibus", in where he deals with ancient Greek and Roman coins, weights and measures.

Another important work written in 1533 is "De studio literarum recte et commode instituendo". This work is important for humanists because it deals with the "ideal of a whole culture as preparation for a Christian mind.". Budé seemingly wanted to spread the improved Christianity, drawn from original sources.

Further on, Budé left mostly books that improved the study of Greek, letters written in Greek, and dictionaries.

Conclusion

Budé is of importance for later people, because of his restoration of the in the medieval period decayed study of Greek language, books on other topics from the classic period, and because of his foundation of the contemporary Collège de France.

A search for Guillaume Budé (or in Latin: Budaeus) on google books shows a lot of books about him.