Gilles Aycelin de Montaigu

Gilles II de Aycelin Montaigut († December 5, 1378 in Avignon ) was a French diplomat and cardinal; he was commonly called Cardinal of Therouanne.

Gilles II Aycelin was the great- nephew of Gilles de Montaigut I. Aycelin and how this doctor of civil law. In 1356 he became bishop of Therouanne, 1361 Cardinal and 1368, after he had accompanied Pope Urban V. in Italy, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati.

In the political debate that followed the defeat at Maupertuis (19 September 1356), the States General of 1357 and the reform decree of March 3, 1357, he was one of those who were entrusted with the dismissal and punishment of unfaithful royal officers.

In the same year he became Chancellor of France, first in London ( where King John II was in prison ), from 1361 in Paris. 1360 he participated in the negotiations in Brétigny, afterwards ( 1364 ) to the French- Navarrese activities relating to succession in Burgundy.

Pope Gregory XI. commissioned him as arbitrator in the dispute between Peter IV of Aragon and the Duke Louis I of Anjou to the Kingdom of Mallorca.

• Cardinal (14th century)
• Roman Catholic Bishop ( 14th Century )
• Chancellor of France
• Frenchman
• Born in the 13th or 14th century
• Died in 1378
• Man
• Person of Christianity (Avignon )