Anne du Bourg

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Anne du Bourg (also Anne Dubourg ; * 1521 in Riom in Auvergne , † December 23, 1559 in Paris ) was civil lawyer and councilor at the royal court of France. He is considered a Calvinist martyr .

life and death

The execution of Anne du Bourg in 1559

He was a nephew of Chancellor Antoine du Bourg and studied at the University of Orléans . There he also qualified as a professor of law and supervised the student Étienne de La Boétie . In 1557 he was appointed to the Parlement de Paris .

In 1559, during a plenary session, he attacked the royal policy of repression against "the so-called heretics" ( Huguenots ). He made no secret of his Calvinist sentiments and defended them very boldly against Henry II . The French king then had him arrested and taken to prison on the spot. After Heinrich's accidental death in July 1559, the House of Guise was able to seize power at the expense of the heir to the throne, Franz II , who was still underage; but the Guises were also determined opponents of the Huguenots. During the trial, in which Anne du Bourg exhausted all legal remedies, he was convicted of a heretic: he was to be hanged on the Place de Grève and his body burned at the stake . Later in prison, he reconciled himself with his fate and thanked God for having been chosen for such a great task: to assert the right of resistance against royal power. He was executed on December 23, 1559 after he was said to have shouted to the crowd: “Mes amis, je ne suis point ici comme un larron ou un meurtrier, mais c'est pour l'Évangile. »(German:“ My friends, I'm not standing here as a thief or a murderer, but in defense of the gospel ”).

The Elector Friedrich III. von der Pfalz had tried in vain to appoint du Bourg to Heidelberg as a professor in order to prevent the execution of the death sentence .

Remembrance day

December 23 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

Web links

  • Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1570: How Kunigliche Maiestat Anne du Bourg caught, his grace is caught by death ... ( digital copy )
  • Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1570: The Kunigliche Mayestat appears personally in the rhat ... Anna du Bourg a President speaks to the Kunig in the Parliament ... AD MDLIX, June 10th ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Strohm: Ethics in early Calvinism , p. 206f. Walter de Gruyter & co., Berlin, 1996.
  2. ^ Rudolf Heinrich Bernhard Bosse: History of France , p. 471. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1829.
  3. ↑ Guillaume Félice: History of the Protestants France , p. 70. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig, 1855.
  4. ↑ The Amerbach correspondence: The letters from the years 1556-1558 , p. 266.
  5. ^ Anne du Bourg in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Du Bourg, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dubourg, Anne; Burg, Hannas von; Bourg, Anne you; Burg, Johann von; Burg, Hannas von; Burgensis, Annas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION martyr
DATE OF BIRTH 1521
PLACE OF BIRTH Riom
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1559
Place of death Paris