COLOMBIER, PIERRE BERTRAND DE (1299-1361)

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COLOMBIER, PIERRE BERTRAND DE (1299-1361) , French cardinal and diplomatist, was born at Colombier in Ardeche. He was nephew and namesake of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand of

Annonay

ANNONAY

. After a careful juristic education he was successively

advocate

at the parlement of Paris, intendant of the council of the

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

of Nevers (1321), and counsellor-clerk to the parlement (1329). Having taken holy orders, he became dean of St Quentin in 1330, and was employed to negotiate the

marriage

MARRIAGE

of the duke of Normandy, the future king John the Good of France, with the daughter of the king of Bohemia. In 1335 he became

bishop

of Nevers, in 1339 of

Arras

ARRAS

, and contributed to bring the county of

Flanders

FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

into the kingdom of France. Created cardinal priest of St Susanna in 1344, he was employed by the

pope

on important missions, notably to negotiate peace or an armistice between France and England. Having become

bishop

of Ostia in 1353, he was sent next year to Charles IV. of Germany, and induced him to come to Italy to be crowned emperor at Rome, 1355. In 1356 he went to France to try to arrange a peace with England, and died in 1361 at the priory of Montaud near Avignon.
See A. Mazon, Essai historique sur l'etat du Vivarais pendant la guerre de cent ins (Paris, 1889), with references there.

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