When Jacques d'Albret Evêque de Nevers was born in 1502, in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France, his father, Seigneur Jean d'Albret de Nevers d’Orval, was 41 and his mother, Charlotte de BOURGOGNE, was 30. He died on 22 February 1540, at the age of 38.
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form of James and Jacob . In French there is no distinction between a form corresponding to Jacob and a form corresponding to James. This is a perennially popular French given name, and Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme has been used (like John Bull in English) as a typification of the ordinary citizen. In Shakespeare's time it was also used as an English name, pronounced ‘jay-kwez’, as in the case of the melancholy character Jacques in As You Like It. Though rarely, if ever, now used in Britain it is found in the United States.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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