Jacques Malbrancq or Malbrancque, also known as Jacobus Malbrancq or Jacobi Malbrancq (born circa 1579 in Saint-Omer

Saint-Omer

Saint-Omer , a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais. The town is named after Saint Audomar, who brought Christianity to the area....

 - died in 1653 in Tournai

Tournai

Tournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....

, in what is now Belgium), Father, Audomarensis, e Societate Jesu, was a Jesuit priest in the Southern Netherlands

Southern Netherlands

Southern Netherlands were a part of the Low Countries controlled by Spain , Austria and annexed by France...

, professor and preacher at Saint-Omer Jesuit college. He is known for his extensive work on the Morini

Morini

The Morini were a Belgic tribe in the time of the Roman Empire. We know little about their language but one of their cities, Boulogne-sur-Mer was called Bononia by Zosimus and Bonen in the Middle Ages. Zosimus mentioned the Low Germanic character of the city...

, a gallic tribe.

Works on the Morini

His book, De morinis et morinorum rebus, written in Latin, was published in Tournai, and contains three tomes.

• De Morinis et Morinorum rebus, sylvis, paludibus, oppidis, regia comitum prosapia ac territoriis, regioque praesulum dplendore, viis caesareis ac portubus, caesarum domicilio, Audomareae fidei perennitate, templis, monasteriis, centum divorum sanctimonia. His accedunt notae non solùm Morinorum, sed aliarum etiam provinciarum, historicae antiquitati multam facem subministrantes. Deinde divorum … Ad extremum geminus index concionatoribus admodum utilis. Doornik, 1639, Adrianus Quinque
• De Morinis et Morinorum rebus, sylvis, paludibus in vicos et monasteria conversis, de regio monachorum et praesulum splendore, regia spretis connubiis sanctimonia, de horrenda per Nortmannos tectorum et hominum strage, vicis per comites in oppida moenita assurgentibus, de heroicis castellanorum facinoribus, cum illustrium miraculorum centuria. Hic plurimum sibi vendicant Germania, Italia, Hispania, Gallia, Anglia, Scotia, Lotharingia, Belgium universum. Doornik, 1647, Adrianus Quinque
• De Morinis et Morinorum infulis, Audomaraea, Yprensi, Bononica. De Bononicis solymae regibus, Anglicis ad Bononiam et Calesium monarchis, de Francica, Lusitana, Borbonensi, Burgundica, Lotharingica, Anglica, Turriaca, Blesensi, Aucitana, Arvernensi, Castellionensi, Briennensi, Krekia, Cuciaca, Genevensi, familijs apud Morinos pientissimis. De 20. Principum virorum Castellaniis … Tomus III. Pars I. Ab anno Christi M.XC.IV usque ad annum 1313. Doornik, 1654, Weduwe Adrianus Quinque

External links

• Fonds Patrimonial de l’Institut catholique de Lille (French+Latin)