Jean Vendeville (24 June 1527 – 15 October 1592) was a law professor and a bishop of Tournai.
[1] He went to school in Menin, and from the age of fifteen in Paris, where he studied law, beginning a legal practice in Arras.
He travelled to Rome to promote the establishment of missionary seminaries, and journeyed back to the Low Countries in company with William Allen, whom he encouraged to found an English College at Douai.
[1] Vendeville was widowed in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt, and briefly went into exile as a public supporter of the royal cause.
[1] He conducted negotiations on behalf of the royalist interest in the Low Countries, and was named a privy councillor by Philip II of Spain, but in 1580 he resigned from public life to enter holy orders.