Joachim du Bellay
Joachim du Bellay( also Joachim Du Bellay;; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a founder of the Pléiade.
He notably wrote the manifesto of the group:" Défense et illustration de la langue française", which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.
Guillaume du Vair
Guillaume du Vair (7 March 1556 – 3 August 1621) was a French author and lawyer.
Guillaume de Vienne
Guillaume de Vienne, sometimes identified as Guillaume VI de Vienne( died 18 February 1407), was a French prelate, archbishop of Rouen from 1389.
Guillaume Du Nozet
Guillaume Du Nozet( died 20 November 1626) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of" Seleucia in Isauria"( 1621–1626).
Alejandro Planchart
Alejandro Enrique Planchart( 29 July 1935 – 28 April 2019) was a Venezuelan- American musicologist, conductor, and composer.
He was considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Du Fay; more broadly, he was a specialist on music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to the United States to study at Yale University, where he received the degrees of Mus.B.( 1958) and Mus.M.( 1960).
He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971, with a dissertation on the medieval English manuscript source, the Winchester Troper, later turned into a two- volume study with edition.
He taught at Yale for several years and founded the Cappella Cordina, an early- music ensemble that blended undergraduates, graduate students and members of the community.
In 1977 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara and re-established the Cappella there.
He was made Professor Emeritus of the University of California in 2006.
His Festschrift," “ Qui musicam in se habet ”: Essays in Honor of Alejandro Enrique Planchart," co-edited by Anna Zaruznaya, Bonnie Blackburn, and Stanley Boorman, was published by the American Institute of Musicology in 2015.
Planchart continued to publish many articles and scholarly editions following retirement, including the magisterial two- volume," Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works"( Cambridge University Press, 2018).
He died on April 28, 2019 in Santa Barbara, California.
Among his numerous publications are entries in the" New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians"( both the 1980 edition and the 2001 edition) on Cristóbal de Morales, Clemens non Papa, Guillaume Du Fay, St. Martial, St. Gall, Venezuelan places and musicians, and other topics.
In addition, he conducted numerous live performances and recording sessions, mostly of early music, many on the Lyrichord and Musical Heritage Society labels.
Ben Winchell
Ben Winchell( born July 3, 1994) is an American film and television actor, known for playing Aiden in the film" Teen Spirit" and Dixon Ticonderoga in the series" A.N.T. Farm".
He has played the titular role of Max Steel in the live- action film" Max Steel".
Eustache du Bellay
Eustache du Bellay( died 4 September 1565) was Bishop of Paris from 1551 to 1563.
Guillaume du Bellay
Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey( 1491 – 9 January 1543), was a French diplomat and general from a notable Angevin family under King Francis I.
He was born at the château of Glatigny, near Souday, in 1491.
His father, Louis du Bellay- Langey was a younger son of the Angevin family of du Bellay, which from the 14th century was distinguished in the service of the dukes of Anjou and afterwards of the kings of France; and Louis had six sons, who were among the best servants of Francis I. Guillaume, the eldest, is one of the most remarkable figures of the time; a brave soldier, a humanist and a historian, he was above all the most able diplomat at the command of Francis I, prodigiously active, and excelling in secret negotiations.
He entered the military service at an early age, was taken prisoner at Pavia( 1525) and shared the captivity of Francis I.
His skill and devotion attached him to the king.
His missions to Spain, Italy, England and Germany were innumerable; sent three times to England in 1529 – 30, he was occupied with the execution of the treaty of Cambrai and also with the question of Henry VIII. ’s divorce, and with the help of his brother Jean, then bishop of Paris, he obtained a decision favourable to Henry VIII from the Sorbonne( 2 July 1530).
In 1526, he was paid 2,050" livres" by the king for certain" articules" he sent him from Rome, perhaps works of art for Francis' growing collection.
From 1532 to 1536, though he went three times to England, he was principally employed in uniting the German princes against Charles V; in May 1532 he signed the treaty of Scheyern with the dukes of Bavaria, the landgrave of Hesse, and the elector of Saxony, and in January 1534 the treaty of Augsburg.
During the war of 1537, Francis I sent him on missions to Piedmont; he was governor of Turin from December 1537 till the end of 1539, and subsequently replacing Marshal d’Annebaut as governor of the whole of Piedmont, he displayed great capacity in organization.
But at the end of 1542, overwhelmed by work, he was compelled to return to France, and died at Saint- Symphorien- de- Lay near Lyon on 9 January 1543.
Rabelais, an eye-witness, has left a moving story of his death.
He was buried in the cathedral of Le Mans, where a monument was erected to his memory, with the inscription, “ Ci gît Langey, do nt la plume et l’épée Ont surmonté Cicéron et Pompée ”; Charles
V is said to have remarked that Langey, by his own unaided efforts, did more mischief and thwarted more schemes than all the French together.
Guillaume du Bellay was the devoted protector of freedom of thought; without actually joining the reformers, he defended the innovators against their fanatical opponents.
In 1534 – 35 he even tried, unsuccessfully, to bring about a meeting between Francis I and Melanchthon; and in 1541 he intervened in favour of the Vaudois.
Rabelais was the most famous of his clients, and followed him to Piedmont from 1540 to 1542.
Guillaume was himself a valuable historian, and a clear and precise writer.
He imitated Livy in his" Ogdoades", a history of the rivalry between Francis I and the emperor from 1521, of which, though he had no time to finish it, important fragments remain, inserted by his brother Martin du Bellay( died 1559) in his" Mémoires"( 1569).
Jean du Bellay
Jean du Bellay( 1492 – 16 February 1560) was a French diplomat and cardinal, a younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and cousin and patron of the poet Joachim du Bellay.
He was bishop of Bayonne by 1526, member of the" Conseil privé"( privy council) of King Francis I from 1530, and bishop of Paris from 1532.
He became Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the College of Cardinals in 1555.
Wilhelm Homberg
Wilhelm Homberg( January 8, 1652 – September 24, 1715), also known as Guillaume Homberg in French, was a German natural philosopher.

Question: Does Ben Winchell have the same nationality as Guillaume Du Bellay?
Answer: no