SPONDANUS (Henricus), or Henry de Spondus, was born in 1568, and educated at Ortez, where the reformed had a college, and where he distinguished himself early by his facility in acquiring the Latin and Greek languages. He applied himself to the study of the civil and canon law; and in the mean time read the controversial works of Bellarmine and Perron with such eagerness, that, after the example of his brother John, he forsook the Protestant religion. He made his abjuration at Paris in 1595, took priests orders at Rome in 1606, and was made bishop of Pamiers by Lewis XIII. in 1626. His intimacy with Baronius while he was in Italy, suggested to him the design of abridging his Annales ecclesiastici; which he executed with the author's consent, and continued them from the year 1197, where Baronius left off, to the year 1640. He published also, in folio, Annales sacri à mundi creatione ad ejusdem redemptionem; with some smaller works; and died in 1643.