Jakob Beurlin

On 2 June 1557 he examined and signed, together with other theologians, the Confessio Virtembergica, which had been prepared for the Council of Trent, and in the month of August, together with Johannes Brenz's friend Johann Isenmann, he went to Langensalza and afterward to Saxony to come to an understanding with the theologians and councilors of the Elector Maurice concerning the Württemberg Confession as compared with the Saxon, which bad also been prepared for the Council of Trent.

In November 1551, in company with Luther's former steward, Jodocus Neuheller, pastor at Entringen, he was sent as theological adviser of the Württemberg delegates to Trent, where they took notes of the disputations.

On 13 January 1552 both returned home, but on 7 March Beurlin, Brenz, Jacob Heerbrand and Valentin Vannius again started for Trent to oppose the decisions of the Council, and to defend the Confessio Virtembergica before it.

At the Stuttgart synod Beurlin also remained in the background, but he assisted Brenz in the defense of the Confessio Wirtembergica against the Dominican theologian Pedro de Soto.

Vice-chancellor of the university after 1557, Beurlin was the leader of the Swabians at the Erfurt Conference in April 1561, and was still more prominent on his last journey made in the service of the German Protestant cause.

King Antoine of Navarre sought both at Stuttgart and Heidelberg for a theologian to advise him in the controversy which had arisen between the Cardinal of Guise and Theodore Beza concerning the relation of the French Protestants to the Augsburg Confession at the Colloquy of Poissy.