Jacques de Bela (15 February 1586 – 28 May 1667) was a French-basque lawyer and writer in basque language, born at Mauléon.
Miserable in her marriage to Jeanne d'Arbide who was Catholic intransigent, sought refuge in his deeply religious spirit.
With a special mood and a difficult character, initially not sought in the Studio rather than a form of entertainment, but soon driven by his passion for writing, he composed a dictionary and a Basque grammar, that has been lost.
The fourth, is a kind of encyclopedia, known as Tablettes, containing, in alphabetical order, theological, moral, medical, and scientific matters; the second, eighth and with more than 600 pages, says the charters of the country of the Soule.
G. Clément-Simon in his work Le Hélène l'érudition et dans Le Pays Basque au commencement du XVIIe siécle (1896), picks up a few proverbs and Basque sayings taken from the unpublished works of Bela and inserts in the biography that this character brings the author.