Ferry de Locre ( Latinized Ferreolus Locrius) (1571–1614) was a historical and devotional writer from the County of Artois (then part of the

Habsburg Netherlands Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. The rule began in 1482, when the last House of Valois-Burgundy, Valois-Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary of Burgu ...

, now in France).

Life

Locre was born at

Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (, literally ''Saint-Pol on Ternoise''; vls, Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is the seat of the canton of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise. The population of the town is 4, ...

, in the County of Artois, in 1571 and studied at Douai University under

Joannes Miraeus Joannes Miraeus, Latinized from Jean Le Mire (1560–1611) was the fourth bishop of Antwerp. Life Le Mire was born in Brussels on 6 January 1560. He was educated in the city, and began studies at Louvain University, but due to the unsettled c ...

. He became a member of the clergy and was appointed to the church of St Nicholas in

Arras Arras ( , ; pcd, Aro; historical nl, Atrecht ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, which forms part of the regions of France, region of Hauts-de-France; before the regions of France#Reform and mergers of ...

. He wrote a number of works, primarily historical, focusing mainly on the County of Artois. He died at Arras on 22 August 1614. Emile Van Arenbergh, "Locre, Ferry de", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 12
(Brussels, 1893), 307-308.

Publications

*''Oratio funebris in exequiis Rev. D. Matthæi Moullartii, Atrebatum Episcopi'' (Arras, Guillaume de La Rivière, 1600) *''Prélature des Vierges sacrées, avec les Canons et les SS. Pères de l Eglise, où sont rapportez les rares faicts et exemples de plusieurs sainctes Abbesses, et signamment de celles qui ont régenté la Belgique'' (Arras, Guillaume de La Rivière, 1602) *''Discours de la noblesse, auquel, par une conférence des familles de Castille, de France et de l'Autriche avec l'Eglise catholique, est descouverte l'infamie de l'Hérétique'' (Arras, Guillaume de La Rivière, 1605) *''Chronica anacephalaeosis Mariae Augustae Virginis'' (Arras, Guillaume de La Rivière, 1606
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*''Maria Augusta Deiparata in seplem libros distributa'' (Arras, R. Maudhuy, 1608
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*''Histoire chronographique des comté, pays et ville de Saint-Pol en Ternois'' (Douai,

Laurence Kellam Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from La ...

, 1613) *''Chronicon Belgicum, ab anno CCLVIII ad annum usque MDC continuo perductum'' (Arras, Guillaume de La Rivière, 1616
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Locre, Ferry 1571 births 1614 deaths Habsburg Netherlands historians People from Pas-de-Calais University of Douai alumni