Jean Hennuyer
Jean Hennuyer , born with Saint-Quentin or Laon in 1497 and died in Lisieux the March 12th 1578, is a French prelate, bishop of Lisieux.
It makes its studies with Paris with the Collège of Navarre where it is received doctor in 1539. It is repeater of the dolphin, future Henri II, tutor of Antoine of Bourbon, father of Henri IV, then cardinal in 1543. Spiritual adviser of Diane of Poitiers, then of Catherine de Médicis, he becomes first chaplain of Henri II, load which he preserves under François II, Charles IX and Henri III until in 1575.
Violent adversary of the calvinists, it is very highly opposed to the famous edict of January 17th 1562 which is favorable for them. It is this opposition which one confused with the events of 1572, to allot to Hennuyer the mercy to have saved the Protestants of his diocese of the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The authors of Gallia christiana rejected this anecdote.
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