Jean Budé (1425 - Paris, 28 February 1500 or 1501) was a royal counselor of

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, man of letters, and a bibliophile with an exceptionally rich library. While in the service of the king, Jean was sent to Burgundy shortly after the death of

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on 5 January 1477. He delivered confirmation of the privileges of the city of

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. In 1464 he married Catherine Picart (died 1506).Peter G. Bietenholz and Thomas Brian Deutscher, eds., ''Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation'' (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1985), 217. Their children included

Guillaume Budé Guillaume Budé (; Onomastic Latinisation, Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; January 26, 1467 – August 20, 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de Fra ...

(1467–1540), the celebrated humanist, and Louis Budé, canon of the cathedral chapter of

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and later

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there.

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