- Robert Céneau
Robert Céneau [Cenalis, Coenalis, nickname le Soupier.] (b. in Paris, 1483; d. there, 1560) was a French bishop, historian, and controversialist.
In 1513 he became doctor of the Faculty of Theology in the
Sorbonne , and in 1515 was madeBishop of Vence . From here he was transferred in 1530 to the See of Riez, and in 1532 to that of Avranches.He took an active part in the religious and polemical discussions that attended the
Protestant Reformation .Works
He wrote several controversial works, the most important of which are:
*"Pro tuendo sacro coelibatu" (Paris, 1545)
*"Tractatus de utriusque gladii facultate, usuque legitimo" (Paris, 1546, and Leyden, 1558)
*"Axiomade divortio matrimonii mosaici per legem evangelicam refutato" (Paris, 1549)
*"Traductatis Calviniacae" (Paris, 1556)
*"Methodus de compescendâ haereticorum ferociâ" (Paris, 1557).In the same year and place in which the last-named work was published, there appeared his "Historia Galliae", dedicated to
Henry II of France . This was afolio volume, treating of the name, origin, and achievements of theGauls ,Franks , andBurgundians . It has but little critical value. Not long afterward he produced "L'histoire ecclésiastique de Normandie". While Bishop of Riez he issued synodal statutes of that diocese, and wrote a treatise on weights and measures under the title: "De liquidorum leguminumque mensuris, seu verâ mensurarum ponderumque ratione" (Paris, 1532, 1535, 1547).Notes
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