Jean Balue

Jean de La Balue (* 1421 in Poitou, † October 5, 1491 in Rome) was a cardinal and minister of Louis XI.

Career

Jean de La Balue occurred early in the clergy, and soon gained the favor of King Charles VII This raised him despite unworthy way of life as bishop of Evreux and Angers and almoner. Charles 's successor, Louis XI. , La Balue transferred also the business of a finance minister.

Jean de La Balou made ​​sure that the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges in 1451 was overridden him what Pope Nicholas V appointed cardinal. But because he was with the enemies of Louis XI. , The dukes of Berry and Burgundy, was in secret correspondence, and this revealed the plans of the king, let this arrest in 1469 and caught hold in Onzain castle at Blois, but not, as previously claimed him, in an iron cage.

As La Balou was finally released in 1480, he immediately traveled to Rome to Pope Sixtus IV This loaded him with honors, and appointed him Bishop of Albano. In 1484 he was even sent as legate a latere to France, but where he found a poor reception.