Zeger Bernhard van Espen [SEP] place of death
Zeger Bernhard van Espen
Zeger Bernhard van Espen (Espenius) (born at Leuven, 9 July 1646; died at Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2 October 1728) was a Belgian canonist.
Life.
He completed his higher studies at old University of Louvain, became priest in 1673, and doctor of civil and canon law in 1675. He soon began to teach canon law at the University where he was obliged to lecture only for six weeks during the summer vacation; the professor might explain one or other important chapter
consulting Zeger Bernhard van Espen and others, he notified the Chapter at Haarlem that he would exercise his right as metropolitan to name a bishop, if they failed to elect their own candidate within three months. Three months passed, and Barchman Wuytiers assembled his chapter, which unanimously elected Theodore Doncker, who died before he was consecrated bishop of Haarlem.
Death.
Archbishop Barchman Wuytiers died suddenly in his home at Rhynwyck, near Utrecht, on May 13, 1733.