Cayet (Cahier, Caiet, Cajetanus), Pierre Victor Palma

CAYET, ca´´yê´ (CAHIER, CAIET, Cajetanus) PIERRE VICTOR PALMA: Roman Catholic convert; b. at Montrichard (18 m. s.s.w. of Blois), Touraine, 1525; d. in Paris May 10 (or July 22), 1610. He studied at Paris and Geneva, was Protestant pastor at Poitiers and in its neighborhood, and in 1584 became chaplain to Catherine of Bourbon, sister of Henry IV.; in 1595 he embraced Romanism, was made professor of Hebrew in the Sorbonne in 1596, and became priest in 1600. He was accused of scandalous writings and immorality, but claimed that all charges were prompted by ill will because of his change of faith. His most noteworthy writings were Chronologie septénaire de l’histoire de la paix entre le roi de France et d’Espagne (Paris, 1605) and Chronologie novénaire sous le règne de Henri IV (1608).