Benedictus (given Name)
Benedictus is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Benedictus Appenzeller (c.1480–1558), Franco-Flemish singer and composer * Benedictus Arias Montanus (1527–1598), Spanish orientalist * Benedictus Buns (1642–1716), German/Dutch priest and composer * Benedictus Marwood Kelly (1785–1867), British naval officer * Benedictus Aretius (1505–1574), Swiss Protestant theologian and natural philosopher * Benedictus van Haeften (1588–1648), Provost of Affligem Abbey and a writer of religious works Benedictus is also the Latin form of the name Benedict borne by many figures including Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

Benedictus Appenzeller
Benedictus Appenzeller (between 1480 and 1488 – after 1558) was a Franco-Flemish singer and composer of the Renaissance, active in Bruges and Brussels. He served Dowager Queen Mary of Hungary for much of his career, and was a prolific composer of vocal music, both sacred and secular, throughout his long career. Life He was probably born somewhere in the southern portion of the Netherlands, and his approximate birthdate is inferred from a document late in his life, dated July 1558, in which he gave his age as "over 70". Appenzeller is first mentioned in cathedral records in 1518, when he is a singer, and in 1519, when he became choirmaster at the cathedral of St. Jacob in Bruges. His several publications during the following years show that he was active then as a composer, but nothing is known of his actual whereabouts or employment until 1536, when Dowager Queen Mary of Hungary (daughter of Philip I and Joanna the Mad of Castile) brought him into her Brussels chapel as a sin ...
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Benedictus Arias Montanus
Benito Arias Montano (or Benedictus Arias Montanus; 1527–1598) was a Spanish orientalist and polymath that was active mostly in Spain. He was also editor of the '' Antwerp Polyglot''. He reached the high rank of Royal Chaplain to King Philip II of Spain. His work was censured by the Spanish Inquisition when rabbinical references were included into his ''Antwerp Polyglot Bible''. Biography He was born at Fregenal de la Sierra, in Extremadura, and died at Seville. After studying at the universities of Seville and Alcalá, he took orders about the year 1559. He became a clerical member of the Military Order of St. James, and accompanied the Bishop of Segovia to the Council of Trent (1562) where he won great distinction. On his return he retired to a hermitage at Aracena whence he was summoned by King Philip II of Spain (1568) to supervise a new polyglot edition of the Bible, with the collaboration of many learned men. The work was issued from the Plantin Press (1572, 8 volume ...
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Benedictus Buns
Benedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho (born ''Buns''; also ''Buns Gelriensis'' in ''Latin''; 1642 – 6 December 1716), was a priest and composer. Biography Buns was born in Geldern (near Kevelaer), which is now a part of Germany, and died in Boxmeer, the Netherlands. In 1659 Buns entered the monastery of the Carmelites in Geldern. His first name is unknown. Work in Boxmeer Buns was professed in 1660 and was ordained in 1666.Arbogast p.111 Sometime between 1666 and 1671 Buns moved to the monastery of the Carmelites in Boxmeer. He was appointed sub- prior in the periods 1671–1674; 1677–1683; 1692–1701; and 1704–1707. During this length of time he frequently travelled to Mechelen, Antwerp and Brussels to attend Carmelite chapter-meetings. From 1679 until his death he held the position of functionary (''titularus'') organist in Boxmeer at the Bremser organ, built by Blasius Bremser from Mechelen. As organist, Buns succeeded Waltmans p. V Hubertus à Sancto ...
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Benedictus Marwood Kelly
Benedictus Marwood Kelly (3 February 1785 – 26 September 1867) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He rose to the rank of admiral after service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Family and early life Kelly was born in Holsworthy, Devon on 3 February 1785 and baptised on 1 September 1790. He was the son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly (1752–1836) lawyer and private banker, and Mary Coham. He entered the Royal Navy on 19 October 1798 as an able seaman aboard , serving under Captain Philip Wodehouse. He moved with Wodehouse to the 28-gun and then to the 80-gun in November 1799, under the command of his uncle, Captain William Hancock Kelly. Benedictus spent the next six years aboard her, and in her assisted at the capture of Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée's squadron of three frigates and two brigs on 19 June 1799. He attended the expedition of 1800 and 1801 to Ferrol and Egypt, and was wounded in a boat attack on the French defences at Portoferraio on the isla ...
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Benedictus Aretius
Benedictus Aretius (surname derived from Marti by Greek translation) (1505–1574) was a Swiss Protestant theologian, Protestant reformer and natural philosopher. Life He was born at Bätterkinden, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. He studied at Strasbourg and at Marburg, where he became professor of logic. He was called to Bern as a school-teacher, 1548, and became professor of theology, 1564. He died at Bern on 22 March 1574. Works His major work, ''Theologiæ problemata'' (Bern, 1573), was a compendium of the knowledge of the time and was highly valued. His ''Examen theologicum'' (1557) ran through six editions in fourteen years. His works also include * a commentary on the New Testament (1580 and 1616) and on the Pentateuch (1602; 2d ed., with commentary on the Psalms added, 1618); * a commentary on Pindar (1587); * a description of the flora of two mountains of the Bernese Oberland, Stockhorn and Niesen (Strasbourg, 1561); * a Hebrew method for schools (Basel, 1561); an ...
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Benedictus Van Haeften
Benedictus van Haeften (1588 – 31 July 1648) was the Provost of Affligem Abbey and a writer of religious works. Haeften commissioned Rubens and De Crayer to decorate the church and the monastery in Affligem. Biography Van Haeften was a Benedictine writer, provost of the Abbey of Affligem. He was born in Utrecht, 1588, and died 31 July 1648, at Spa, Belgium, where he had gone to recover his health.Ott, Michael. "Benedict van Haeften." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 25 October 2022 After studying philosophy and theology at the , he entered the Benedictine