"Zagar, Jacques (Flem.). Lawyer, author and statesman, known also as a Medallist, flourished in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. Nagler, in 1852, first mentions his name in his Neues Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, t. XXII, p. 176. Pinchart in the Rev. belge num., 1854, p. 334, and later in his Histoire de la Gravure des Médailles en Belgique depuis le XV siécle jusqu’en 1794, 1870. devoted a notice to him. ... Little is however known of his career. The fact has been established that he was of Flemish, and not Spanish origin, and that his family came from Goes in Zeeland, severals members of which had obtained burghership of the town of Zierikzee. Zagar studied law at the university of Bourghes. In 1557 he is mentioned as Secretary of the town of Middelburgh; ten years later, in 1567, he was filling the high office of First Pensioner of that city, and in 1569 he is known to have attended a meeting summoned at Brussels by the Duke of Alba. Dr. Simonis states that some time later he went again to Brussels to plead on behalf of the citizens of Middelburgh for a reduction of their heavy taxes." - Forrer, L. "Biographical Dictionary of Medallists", Bd. 6 (London 1916), S. 715-717
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