Philippe de Caverel, Latinized as Philippus Caverellius (1555–1636), was an abbot of the Benedictine

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, and a councillor of state to the Archdukes Albert and

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. He was founder of

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in Paris, of the Jesuit College in Arras, of the College of St Vaast at the University of Douai, and of the English Benedictine monastery in Douai, as well as of a convent in La Bassée. He was also a literary patron of the Baroque period. Caverel was one of the delegates of the County of Artois to the

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, and one of the members of that body deputized to unsuccessful peace negotiations with the Dutch Republic in The Hague. His account of a diplomatic mission to Spain and Portugal in 1582 led by his predecessor, Jean Sarazin, survived in manuscript and was published in 1851 as ''Relation du voyage et de l'ambassade de Jean Sarrazin en Espagne et en Portugal'', edited by Louis de Baecker (Bruges, 1851).

Works dedicated to Caverel

Aubert Miraeus Aubert le Mire, Latinized Aubertus Miraeus (30 November 1573 – 19 October 1640) was an ecclesiastical historian in the Spanish Netherlands. Life Miraeus was born in Brussels. His father was Guillaume le Mire and his mother Joanna Speeckae ...

, ''Origines Benedictinae'' (Cologne, 1614). *

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, ''Histoire ecclesiastique du Pays-bas'' (Valenciennes, 1614). *

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, ''Sancti Belgi Ordinis praedicatorum'' (Douai, 1618). * John Pitts, ''Relationum historicarum de rebus anglicis Tomus Primus'' (Paris, 1619). *

, ''Originum monasticarum libri IV'' (Cologne, 1620).

Sources

*Hugues Du Tems, ''Le clergé de France'', vol. 4 (Paris, 1775), p. 151.

External links

The tomb of Philippe de Caverel
*Philippe de Caverel
Relation du voyage et de l'ambassade de Jean Sarazin en Espagne et en Portugal
(Arras, 1860). {{DEFAULTSORT:Caverel 1555 births 1636 deaths Belgian Benedictines Benedictine abbots Abbots of the Spanish Netherlands