Pierre d'Estaing

Pierre d'Estaing , also d'Estaing , OSB (* 1320 in Estaing ; † November 18 or 25, 1377 in Rome ) was a French Benedictine , bishop and cardinal .

Life

D'Estaing was born in 1320 at the family castle as the fourth of the nine children of Guillaume III. d'Estaing and his wife Esmengarde de Peyre. He entered the Ste-Foy monastery in Conques and became a monk of the Saint-Victor Abbey in Marseille . He got his doctorate in law.

He was prior of the monastery Saint-Genies-d'Olt ( Rouergue ), the monastery Sainte-Foy de Colombiers in the diocese of Meaux and the monastery La Canourgue ( Gévaudan ), which was not far from his home.

On November 19, 1361 he was elected Bishop of Saint-Flour . He built the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Villedieu and founded a chapter with six canons . On April 13, 1368 he was appointed Archbishop of Bourges .

On June 7, 1370, Pope Urban V created Pietro Corsini , the bishop of Volterra and Florence, as cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso and d'Estaing as cardinal priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere . In 1370 he was on a mission in Italy with Anglic de Grimoard . Therefore, he was not present at the 1370 conclave . The newly elected Pope Gregory XI. appointed him legate in Italy. From July 1371 to March 1374 he was in Bologna. In 1373 he was appointed Cardinal Bishop of Ostia e Velletri and Camerlengo .

He died in Rome on November 18 or 25, 1377 and was buried in Santa Maria in Trastevere .

literature

Pierre Jugie: ESTAING, Pierre d '. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43: Enzo – Fabrizi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993.

Individual evidence

↑ Entry no. PA00093719 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
^ Estaing, OSB, Pierre d '. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed January 4, 2019.
↑ Pierre Jugie: ESTAING, Pierre d '. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43. Rome 1993.

personal data
SURNAME	Pierre d'Estaing
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French bishop and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	1320
PLACE OF BIRTH	Estaing
DATE OF DEATH	November 18, 1377 or November 25, 1377
Place of death	Rome

[1] Entry no. PA00093719 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[2] Estaing, OSB, Pierre d '. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed January 4, 2019.

[3] Pierre Jugie: ESTAING, Pierre d '. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43. Rome 1993.