Antoine de Challant

Antoine de Challant (* 1340/50; † September 1418 in Bulle ) was Archbishop of Tarentaise from 1404 to 1418 and pseudocardinal from 1404 .

Life

Antoine comes from the wealthy noble family of the Lords of Challant in the Aosta Valley . He was the son of Aymon de Challant and Catherine Provana de Leini, the Bishop of Lausanne Guillaume de Challant was his brother. Antoine was Archdeacon of Reims from 1388 to 1403 , Chancellor of Savoy from 1402 to 1404 and became Archbishop of Tarentaise in 1404. Benedict XIII. appointed him in 1404 Archbishop of Tarentaise and Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata . He took part in the Council of Perpignan, but fell shortly afterwards from Benedict XIII. from. In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa , which Alexander V elected Pope, to which Antoine joined. In 1410 he took part in the conclave of Bologna , which John XXIII. chose. From 1411 he became abbot of Saint-Michel-de-la-Cluse and nuncio in France. John XXIII appointed him cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia in 1412 . In 1413 he was sent together with Francesco Zabarella as papal legate to King Sigismund to prepare a general council . He became Chancellor of the Roman Church and papal chamberlain . Antoine took part in the Council of Constance as the ambassador of Savoy and was a member of the conclave that elected Martin V in 1417 . In the following year he accompanied the new Pope on his trip to Lausanne , where he died in September 1418 at the Bulle Castle .

literature

• Gilbert Coutaz: Challant, Antoine de . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1656 f.

Web links

• Challant, Antonio de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 4, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Aymon IV. De Séchal	Archbishop of Tarentaise 1406–1431	Jean de Bertrand