Berquin, Louis de (d. 1529). Member of François Ier's Council, and thus the most prominent French victim of religious repression in the 1520s. Translator and apologist of Luther and Erasmus, Berquin was twice convicted of heresy but released by royal intervention. His hasty trial and execution on 17 April 1529 [see Reformation] caused consternation among the humanists, reflected in a moving letter by Erasmus.
[Michael Heath]
