André Tiraqueau

André Tiraqueau (Latin: Andreas Tiraquellus) (1488–1558) was a French jurist and politician.

He is known also as a patron of François Rabelais, and the character Trinquamelle in Gargantua and Pantagruel is traditionally identified with Tiraqueau.

[1][2] He was a legal humanist based in Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou, where he knew Amaury Bouchard.

The arrangement in the seven-volume edition is: Rabelais met Tiraqueau during his time as an Observantine Franciscan at Fontenay; he participated in the humanist circle there, in the early 1520s.

[16] As Rabelais was writing his Tiers Livre, Tiraqueau was collecting authorities for his work on nobility (1549).

André Tiraqueau, 1574 engraving by Jost Amman .
Illustrated title page of Commentarii in l(egem) Si unquam (1559), woodcut by Claude Bezoard.