Elzéar de Grimoard

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Elzéar de Grimoard , also known as Elzéar Grimoard , (* in Le Pont-de-Montvert ) was a French monk. He was Minister General of the Carthusian Order from 1361 to 1367 . He was uncle of Guillaume de Grimoard , who as Urban V. Avignonesischer Pope was.

Life

Grimoard was prior of the Charterhouse of Bonpas in Caumont , Comtat Venaissin on the banks of the Durance before he became Minister General of the Carthusians in 1361. The following year his nephew Guillaume, who was abbot of Saint-Victor in Marseille, became Pope Urban V and his brother Anglic de Grimoard became a cardinal .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yves Chiron: Urbain V le bienheureux . Via romana, Versailles 2010, ISBN 978-2-916727-65-3 , p. 174 .