MEYER, Jacques, a historian, was born in 1491 at Vleteren, near Baileul in Flanders. After receiving his education at Paris he entered the church, and subsequently established a school at Ypres, by which he acquired considerable renown, and which he afterwards removed to Bruges when appointed to the church of St Donation there. This school he finally gave up when he became curate of Blankenburg, where he died in 1552. His principal works are, Flandricarum Rerum Decas, Bruges, 1531; and Annales Rerum Flandricarum, Antwerp, 1561.