Olwen Hufton

Olwen Hufton

female, 71 years old
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Academic, Educator, British, royal holloway, Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire…CounterReformation
Professor Dame Olwen Hufton, DBE, B.A., Ph.D., FBA, F.R.Hist.S. (b. 1938) is one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe and a pioneer of...

Teresa Of Ávila

female, deceased (1582)
Renewers of the church, julian, julian calendar, gregorian calendar, Carmelite spirituality, Doctor of the Church…CounterReformation, Catholic Reformation
Saint Teresa of Ávila (March 28, 1515 – October 4, 1582) was a major figure of the Catholic Reformation as a prominent Spanish mystic and writer and...

François de la Rochefoucauld

male, deceased (1645)
See of Senlis, bishop of Clermont, Canonical, French, Jesuit, richelieu…CounterReformation
François de la Rochefoucauld was a French Cardinal and an "important figure in the French Counter Reformation church". He was one of four sons of C...

Dionigi Bussola

male, deceased (1687)
Orta San Giulio, Sacri Monti, cesare, baroque, from Lombardy, cathedral…CounterReformation
Dionigi or Dionisio Bussola was an Italian sculptor active mainly in Milan and its environs during the Baroque era. Bussola was probably born in...

Menocchio

male, 477 years old
reformation, CounterReformation, inquisition, Roman Inquisition, Victim of the Inquisition, heresiarch
The Friulian miller Menocchio, also known as Domenico Scandella, was born in 1532. His philosophical teachings earned him the title of a heresiarch...

Jan Soens

male, deceased (1611)
dutch, painter, Mannerist painter, parma, CounterReformation, farnese
Jan Soens, also known as Giovanni Sons, was a Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch, who was particularly active from 1575 with the Farnese in Rome,...

Luis Ponce de León

male, deceased (1591)
poet, augustinian, spanish, castile, CounterReformation, la mancha
Fray Luis Ponce de León (born Belmonte, in Cuenca province, of the Castilian region of La Mancha, Spain, in 1527 - 23 August 1591) was a Spanish l...

Luis de Góngora

male, deceased (1627)
from Córdoba, Spain, Spanish Baroque literature, Duke of Lerma, andalusian, marrano, baroque…CounterReformation
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Gongora, who, together with Francisco de Quevedo, is considered by many literary s...

James Archer

male, deceased (1620)
Jesuit, Irish, queen elizabeth i, CounterReformation, Society of Jesus, Nine Years War
James Archer (1550-1620) was an Irish member of the Society of Jesus and played a controversial role in the Nine Years War, during the Tudor...

Peter Paul Rubens

married, also received as a gentleman by many
Rubens was born in Siegen , Westphalia , to Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelincks. His father, a Calvinist , and mother fled Antwerp for Cologne in 1568,...
Employment: …Tenor - Counter-Reformation