page_title: Cornelius de Schepper
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelius de Schepper / Personal life
context_page_description: Cornelius de Schepper was a Flemish counsellor and ambassador for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Ferdinand I of Austria and Mary of Hungary, governor of the Netherlands. He is also known by his Latin name Scepperus.
context_section_description: Schepper married twice. His first wife was Elisabeth Donche who died on August 20, 1549 at the age of 51. They had together a daughter called Anne.  Schepper's second wife was Marguerite Loonis with whom he had no descendants.
  Schepper spoke many languages and was highly appreciated in humanist circles.  Erasmus wrote in the Ciceronian that “Not only is Schepper knowledgeable in all kinds of branches of science, but he also has literary talents in prose and poetry”.
  Alfonso de Valdés, Johannes Dantiscus and Viglius, the Flemish statesman and jurist, were some of his closest friends. Schepper had an extensive network of correspondents that included Erasmus, Goclenius, Olahus, Melanchthon and Bovelles.
  Like many of his contemporaries Schepper had a keen interest in astrology. In 1524 he published “Assertionis fidei adversus astrologos sive de significationibus coniunctionum superiorum planetarum anni 1524”, an extensive contribution to the widespread debate that was instigated by predictions of catastrophic floods following the Great Conjunction of 1524.
caption: Portraits of Cornelius de Schepper and his wife Elizabeth Donche by Ambrosius Benson c.1540
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