From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Jean Maynier

French public official

Field	Value
name	Jean Maynier
image	Jean Maynier by Cundier 1724.jpg
caption	Jean Maynier d'Oppède, by J. Cundier, 1724.
birth_date	1495
death_date	1558
occupation	Public official
parents	Accurse Maynier

Jean Maynier, baron d'Oppède (1495 – 1558) was a French public official. He served as the First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence in 1543.

Biography

Early life

Jean Maynier was born in 1495. His father, Accurse Maynier (1450-1513), served as the First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence in 1507.

Career

He was appointed First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence in Aix-en-Provence in December 1543.

He is remembered for being responsible for the 1545 Massacre of Mérindol, engendered in part by his highly coloured accounts forwarded to Francis I of activities in the Vaudois of Protestants, and encouraged by the papacy to root out the "heretics" in the Venaissin, culminated in the massacre in which hundreds or thousands of Waldensians were killed at the order of the king. His responsibility is shared by Antoine Escalin des Aimars, who while in Marseille as he was returning from the Italian Wars with 2,000 veterans, the Bandes de Piémont, was requested to assist Jean Maynier d'Oppède in the repression. The massacres were followed by a wave of looting.

Death

He died in 1558.

References

Robert Jean Knecht, ''The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610'', 2001:189
[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEBMIIcHQkC&pg=PA405 R. J. Knecht, ''Francis I'' p.405]

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1495-births 1558-deaths people-from-aix-en-provence

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Jean Maynier — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report