Jean de la Grange

Jean de la Grange ( * 1325, † April 25, 1402 in Avignon ) was one of the cardinals responsible for the Western Schism. He was the brother of the President of Parliament Étienne de la Grange.

Life

Jean de la Grange was a Benedictine monk, prior of Elincourt and later by Gigny. He was representative of the Order of Cluny in the Curia. In 1358 he was abbot of Fécamp. His patron was Cardinal Guy de Boulogne, whom he accompanied on his mission to Spain. At the French court he was part of the environment of Charles the evil King of Navarre, who gathered some reform-minded clerics to.

In the French king Charles V. advice he played with his brother Étienne a prominent role, where he was entrusted with the Church but also fiscal functions, which earned him a solid unpopularity. 1370 he was President of the Cour des aides, 1373 he became bishop of Amiens, in 1375 Cardinal with the titular church of San Marcello. As Cardinal of Amiens he was in the aftermath of Charles V at the same consultant as of Pope Gregory XI. ( 1370-1378 ).

In 1378 he came to Rome, but missed the conclave that Urban VI. (1378-1379) to the Pope chose them because he tried at the conferences in Sarzana at peace with Florence, but was then one of the leaders in the election of the antipope Clement VII (1378-1394) and may thus be one of the responsible for the Western Schism apply. He reached the recognition Clement VII at Charles V and tried the same with the King of Castile.

He was very influential among Clement VII, was under Benedict XIII. more apart, at its election, he was also involved. He soon joined the ranks among those discussed urged Benedict deposition ( 1395 ) and organized the refusal of obedience ( 1398 ). It was not until his death meant that the dispute was defused.

Jean de la Grange is the principal of the new statues of the " Beau Pilier " ( the north-western buttress ) of the Cathedral of Amiens: you can see where Charles V, the future Charles VI, and the future Duke Louis of Orléans, Bureau de la Rivière. and Jean de la Grange itself

His grave is located in Saint -Martial in Avignon and provides, after the grave stone of the physician Guillaume de Harsigny of 1393, one of the first examples of a She- is ( representation of the deceased as a corpse ).

  • Cardinal (14th century)
  • Roman Catholic Bishop ( 14th Century )
  • Abbot
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in 1402
  • Man
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