Famous People with Name Loys

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois: was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, is commonly attributed to him.

Loyset Compère            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Loyset Compère: was a French composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France.

Loyset Compère            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Loyset Compère: was a French composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France.

Charles Loyseau            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Charles Loyseau: is considered one of the best sources for understanding the French social structure of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1] He was a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris, the highest royal court in France, as well as a judge in local and seigneurial courts.[2] He evaluated French society and law and his most famous work, A Treatise on Orders and Simple Dignities, written in 1610, is considered the most comprehensive account of the orders of the three Estates. This work was used to justify France’s social organization up until the end of the Old Regime in 1789.[3]