CHAPEAUVILLE, JEAN. – Belgian theologian and historian, born in Liège on 5 January 1551, died there on 5 May 1617.
Ordained a priest, he was initially a very zealous parish priest in Liège, particularly deserving of recognition during the plague; he later became inquisitor of the faith (1583) at the behest of Bishop Ernesto of Bavaria, his archdeacon and vicar general, and provost of the Chapter of S. Pietro.
He composed treatises on reserved cases and on the administration of the Sacraments during times of plague; he commented on the catechism of the Council of Trent.
His qualities as a scholar and critic emerged in the Historia sacra, profana necnon et politica, published in three volumes (Liège 1612–16), in which he collected the ancient chronicles concerning Belgium in particular.