Guillaume Gazet


Guillaume Gazet, Latinized Gulielmus Gazaeus was a poet and ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands. His brother, Antoine Gazet, was a physician and translator.

Life

Gazet was born in Arras, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands, in 1554. Around 1580 he was appointed parish priest of the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Arras, and later became a canon of the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Aire-sur-la-Lys while retaining his position as parish priest.
He died in Arras on 25 August 1612 and was buried in his parish church there.

Works

As author

Magdalis. Comoedia sacra Chanson nouvelle pour l'heureux succez de l'armée catholicque ensemble, de la prinse des ville et chasteau de Calais L'ordre et suite des evesques et archevesques de Cambray L'ordre des evesques d'Arras depuis la separation de l'evesché de Cambray L'ordre et suyte des evesques de Cambray et d'Arras Briève histoire de la sacrée manne et de la sainte chandelle miraculeusement données de Dieu et religieusement conservées en la ville et cité d'Arras Le cabinet des Dames: contenant l'ornement spirituel de la femme. Le consolateur des ames scrupvleuses. La Bibliotheque Sacree du Pays-Bas. L'Histoire ecclésiastique des Pays-Bas.

As editor