Jean de la Grange

Statue of Cardinal Jean de la Grange at Amiens Cathedral

Jean de la Grange (* around 1325; † April 25, 1402 in Avignon ) was one of the cardinals responsible for the Western Schism . He was the brother of the President of Parliament Étienne de la Grange .

Life

Jean de la Grange was a Benedictine monk , prior of Elincourt and later of Gigny . He became the representative of the Order of Cluny at the Curia . In 1358 he was Abbot of Fécamp . Its patron was Cardinal Guy de Boulogne , whom he accompanied on his mission to Spain. At the French court he belonged to the circle of Charles the Evil , King of Navarre , who gathered around him some reform-minded clerics .

In the council of the French King Charles V (1364-1380) he played a prominent role together with his brother Étienne, where he was entrusted with church but also fiscal tasks, which earned him a solid unpopularity. In 1370 he was president of the Cour des aides , in 1373 he became bishop of Amiens , and in 1375 cardinal with the titular church of San Marcello . As a cardinal of Amiens , he was also adviser to Charles V and Pope Gregory XI. (1370-1378).

In 1378 he came to Rome , but missed the conclave , the Urban VI. (1378-1379) elected Pope because he tried to achieve peace with Florence at the Sarzana conferences , but was then one of the leading figures in the election of the antipope Clement VII (1378-1394) and may thus be one of the Those responsible for the occidental schism apply. He achieved the recognition of Clement VII with Charles V and tried the same with the King of Castile .

He was very influential under Clement VII, stood under Benedict XIII. stronger apart, in whose election he was also involved. He soon joined those who pushed for Benedict's removal (1395) and organized the refusal to obey (1398). It was only after his death that the dispute was defused.

Jean de la Grange commissioned the new statues of the "Beau Pilier" (the north-western buttress) of the cathedral of Amiens : there you can see Charles V, the future Charles VI. , and the future Duke Louis of Orléans , Bureau de la Rivière and Jean de la Grange himself.

His grave is in Saint-Martial in Avignon and is one of the first examples of a transi (depiction of the deceased as a corpse) , based on the grave slab of the doctor Guillaume de Harsigny from 1393 .

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