Jean de Malestroit

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Jean de Malestroit was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes from 17 Jul 1419 until 1443 AD when he resigned,[1] and he was a pseudo-cardinal, during the fifteenth century.

contemporary stature of Jean de Malestroit (right)

Born in 1375 in Châteaugiron in the Duchy of Brittany, Jean de Malestroit was the sixth known son of Jean de Châteaugiron, lord of Malestroit and Largoët who died in 1374 and his second wife Jeanne Dol Dame de Combourg. He is also the half-brother Thibaud Malestroit (died 1408), who was bishop of Tréguier in 1378 and Quimper in 1383 AD.[2]

Life

Jean Malestroit was Archdeacon of the Diocese of Nantes. He was elected bishop of Saint Brieuc in 1405 and then joined the Privy Council of John VI, Duke of Brittany and became Governor General of Brittany's finances in 1406, He was First President of the Chamber of Accounts for Brittany at the beginning of 1408 AD, then Chancellor, Duke and Treasurer Receiver General of the Duchy of Brittany a few months later. He was transferred to the diocese of Nantes July 17, 1419.

As bishop of Nantes, he launched with the Duke Jean V, on the construction site of the current St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral. The Duke's son John VI and the bishop laid the first stone 14 April 1434.[3] He also built Château-Gaillard (Vannes)

Gilles de rais trial.

Subsequently, he chaired the ecclesiastical trial of Gilles de Rais in October 1440 in Nantes.[4]

Anti Cardinal

The antipope Felix V created him a cardinal on 12 November 1440.[5] and he died in September 13, 1443.[6]

Successor

He was succeeded by his nephew William, who was bishop from 14 Jun 1443 till 1461. William was the son of Jeans brother William of Malestroit and his wife Margaret of Quintin. William had been dean of the Saint-Malo, when he succeeded his uncle but was considered authoritarian and awkward. He resigned his post at the end of the year 1461 and became Archbishop of Thessalonica, due it is claimed to his refusal to make the oath of allegiance to the Duke. He died Aug. 17, 1491.

References

  1. ↑ Jean de Malestroit at Catholic heirachy.org.
  2. ↑ Barthélemy-Amédée Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, « Malestroit en Italie et l'autonomie fiscale du clergé breton », Mémoires de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne, Paris, Honoré Champion, t. VII, 1926, p. 90.
  3. ↑ Nantes Cathedral construction
  4. ↑ Georges Bataille et Pierre Klossowski, Procès de Gilles de Rais. Documents précédés d'une introduction de Georges Bataille, Société nouvelle des éditions Pauvert, 1985 (1re éd. 1959), p. 338.
  5. ↑ Malestroit .
  6. ↑ Jean de Malestroit.
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