Guillaume Fillastre the Younger

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Probably a portrait of Guillaume Fillastre, around 1440, attributed to Rogier van der Weyden
Illumination in a manuscript from Guillaume's Histoire de la Toison d'Or . The picture shows a session of the Chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece. In the front left Guillaume Filastre in the bishop's robe, in the middle seated Duke Charles the Bold. Vienna, Austrian National Library , Cod. 2541, fol. 4r (1473)

Guillaume Fillastre the Younger OSB (* 1400 or 1407; † 1473 in Tournai ) was a French bishop and counselor at the court of Burgundy under Philip the Good and Charles the Bold .

Life

As the illegitimate son of Guillaume Fillastre , he was initially a Benedictine monk and abbot of the Saint-Bertin monastery in Saint-Omer . He was later bishop of Verdun 1437–1448 , 1448–1461 of Toul and finally bishop of Tournai from 1461 until his death. In that year he was also appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece . In 1468 he presented Charles the Bold with the first pages of his large treatise on the order, which his father, Philip the Good, had founded. This three-volume work in French was completed in 1473.

See also

  • Guillaume Fillastre ("the elder"), with whom the person described here is easily confused, since both were dignitaries of the Catholic Church.

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predecessor Office successor
Jean Chevrot Bishop of Tournai
1460 - 1473 		Ferry de Clugny
Louis de Haraucourt Bishop of Toul
1449 - 1460 		Jean V. de Chevrot
Louis de Haraucourt Bishop of Verdun
1437 - 1449 		Louis de Haraucourt
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SURNAME Fillastre, Guillaume the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop and counselor at the court of Burgundy under Philip the Good and Charles the Bold
DATE OF BIRTH 1400 or 1407
DATE OF DEATH 1473
Place of death Tournai