Barthélemy Hector

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Barthelemi Hector and Bartolomeo Hector
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Poitiers, Kingdom of France
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Peddler
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
29 February 1556
End date
5 June 1556
Courts involved
Inquisition of Turin
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Giuseppe Parpaglia, vicar of the archbishop of Turin; Antonio di Scalenghe, vicar of Pinerolo abbey; Girolamo Porporato and Agostino della Chiesa, members of the Parliament of Turin
Notes

Start date: arrest
End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Local judge
Tommaso Giacomelli
Sentence date
5 June 1556
Sentence place
Turin, Duchy of Savoy
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

He was retained heretic and schismatic for having sold heretical books and propagated heretical doctrines, he sustained that Geneva was the place where the Gospel is best preached, he defined the Mass idolatrous, he denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, he retained the veneration of sacred images idolatrous, he denied the value of auricular confession

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties
Confiscation of assets; burning of the books he sold

Execution

Execution date
20 June 1556
Authority
Parliament of Turin
Execution place
Turin, Duchy of Savoy, Piazza Castello
Execution type
Burned alive
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Unknown
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
No
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters

Guillame Farel to John Calvin, 12 luglio 1556 (edited in Jalla, Storia della Riforma, pp. 83-84)

Girolamo Raffaele Alosiano to the German Protestant Princes, Busca, 13 April 1559 (edited in Vinay, Lettre de Busca, pp. 49-50)

Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies

[Barnaud Nicolas], Le cabinet du roy de France, dans le quel il y a trois Perles precieuses d’inestimable valeur. Par le moyen desquelles sa Maiesté s’en va le premier Monarque du mond, et ses sujets du tout soulagez, [Genève], 1581, p. 266

Benoist Jean, Histoire des Albigeois, et des Vaudois, ou Barbets, vol. 2, Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1691, p. 265

Bertolotti Antonino, Martiri del libero pensiero e vittime della Santa Inquisizione nei secoli XVI, XVI e XVIII. Studi e ricerche negli archivi di Roma e Mantova, Roma, Tipografia delle Mantellate, 1891, p. 35

Bèze Theodore de, Histoire ecclésiastique des Églises réformées au royaume de France, Anvers, Jean Remy, 1580, p. 111

Bonhoure Jules, L’année protestante ou Vies de protestants éminents de langue française pour chaque jour de l’année, Paris, Monnerat, 1889, p. 172

Brez Jacques, Histoire des Vaudois, ou des habitants des vallées occidentales du Piémont, vol. 1, Paris, 1796, p. 56

Crespin Jean, Cinquieme partie du recueil des martyrs, qui en ces derniers temps en France en Flandre, Espagne, Italie & autres regions lointaines ont constamment enduré la mort pour la verité du Seigneur, [Genève], 1563, pp. 12-30

Gilles Pierre, Histoire ecclésiastique des Eglises Réformées, recueillies en quelques Valées de Piedmont, et circonuoisines, autrefois appelées Eglises Vaudoises, commençant des l’an 1160 de nostre Seigneur, et finissant en l’an mil sex cent quarante trois, Genève, Iean de Tournes, 1644, pp. 53, 88

Haag Eugène, Haag Émile, La France protestante ou Vies des protestants français qui se sont fait un nom dans l’histoire depuis les premiers temps de la réformation jusqu’à la reconnaissance du principe de la liberté des cultes par l’Assemblée nationale, vol. 5, Paris, Cherbuliez, 1855, pp. 442-443

Haemstede Adriaen van, De historien der vromer martelaren, Dordrecht, Joris Waters, 1616, f. 29

Hudry-Menos Grégoire, L’Israël des Alpes ou les Vaudois du Piémont, «Revue des deux mondes», 38.2 (1868), pp. 691-692

Léger Jean, Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, vol. 2, Leyde, Jean le Carpentier, 1669, p. 28

Lièvre Auguste-François, Les martyrs poitevins, Toulouse, Société des livres religieux, 1874, pp. 23-28

Monastier Antoine, Histoire de l’Église vaudoise depuis son origine et des Vaudois du Piémont jusqu’à nos jours, vol. 1, Toulouse, Société des Livres religieux, 1847, pp. 223, 224, 241

Muston Alexis, L’Israël des Alpes. Première histoire complète des Vaudois du Piémont et de leurs colonies, composée en grande partie sur des documents inédits, avec l’indication des sources et des autorités, vol. 1, Paris, Marc Ducloux, 1851, pp. 206-214

Severt Jacques, L’Anti-martyrologe, ou Verité manifestée contre les Histoires des supposés martyrs de la Religion pretenduë reformée, imprimées à Geneue onze fois, Lyon, Ricaud, 1622, pp. 591-592

Storia delle persecuzioni e guerre contro il popolo chiamato valdese che abita nelle Valli del Piemonte, di Angrogna, Luserna, S. Martino, Perosa e altre, a far tempo dall’anno 1555 fino al 1561, ed. Enea Balmas, Carlo Alberto Theiler, Torino, Claudiana, 1975, p. 75

Thou Jacques-Auguste de, Historiae sui temporis, vol. 1, Parisiis, apud viduam Mamerti Patissonii, 1604, p. 460

Willyams Jane Louisa, A short history of the Waldensian Church in the Valleys of Piedmont, from the earliest period to the present time, London, James Nisbet, 1855, pp. 117-119

Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons

Way Lewis, The Household of Faith. A sermon, preached to the English Congregation assembled at Rome, Sunday, 6th April, 1823, for the benefit of the primitive Church of the Vaudois or Ancient Albigenses and Waldenses, London, Hatchard, 1823, pp. 52-53

Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Felici Lucia, I tribunali della fede (XVI sec.). Istituzioni, dinamiche, esiti, in Storia dei valdesi, vol. 2, Diventare riformati (1532-1689), ed. Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi, Torino, Claudiana, 2024, pp. 143-162

Felici Lucia, Tra Stato e Chiesa: la repressione dell’eresia in Piemonte durante l’occupazione francese (1539-1559), in I tribunali della fede: continuità e discontinuità dal medioevo all’età contemporanea, ed. Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi, Torino, Claudiana, 2007, pp. 163-196

Frossard Charles Louis, Barthelemy Hector. Le colporteur martyr en 1556, «Bulletin historique et littéraire (Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français)», 31.10 (1882), pp. 456-466

Gilmont Jean-François, Aux origines de l’historiographie vaudoise du xvie siècle. Jean Crespin, Etienne Noël et Scipione Lentolo, in I Valdesi e l’Europa, Torre Pellice, Società di Studi Valdesi, 1982, pp. 165-202

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Jalla Giovanni, Storia della Riforma in Piemonte fino alla morte di Emanuele Filiberto. 1517-1580, Torino, Claudiana, 1914

Lavenia Vincenzo, L’inquisitore Tommaso Giacomelli, in Storia dei valdesi, vol. 2, Diventare riformati (1532-1689), ed. Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi, Torino, Claudiana, 2024 pp. 173-181

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Monter William, Judging the French Reformation. Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements, Cambridge-London, Harvard University Press, 1999

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Pascal Arturo, I Valdesi e il parlamento francese di Torino, 1539-1559, Pinerolo, Tipografia Sociale, 1912

Romier Lucien, Les Vaudois et le Parlement de Turin, «Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’Ecole française de Rome», 30 (1910), pp. 193-207

Tucker Jameson, The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin’s Livre des Martyrs, London-New York, Routdledge, 2017

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Notes
Entry Author
Stefano Tomassetti