René de Prie

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reworked seal of René de Prie as Bishop of Bayeux (1875)

René de Prie (* 1451 in Touraine , France , † September 9, 1519 in Évreux ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

With the help of his cousin, Cardinal Georges d'Amboise , de Prie quickly made a career. He was the Grand Archdeacon of the Archdiocese of Bourges , Archdeacon of Blois and Dean of Saint-Hilaire de Poitiers. As Apostolic Protonotary , he became Commendatar Abbot of the Abbeys of Landais , Loroux , Miseray, Notre-Dame de La Prée , Déols, Notre-Dame de Lyre, Micy and Issoudun.

Elected Bishop of Bayeux on August 3, 1498 and confirmed as such on March 25, 1499, he was quite active in his diocese and held a diocesan synod on April 15, 1515 . But on November 24, 1516 he renounced his diocese.

He not only signed the marriage contract for the King of France in 1499, but also acted as his envoy. He was rewarded for this with the Déols Abbey, the Layrac Priory and the Barony of Précigny.

Pope Julius II created de Prie as a cardinal priest on December 18, 1506 , which he did not publish until May 17, 1507. On that day he assigned him the titular church of Santa Lucia in Septisolio . Having been in Rome since 1509 on behalf of the King of France, on November 7, 1509, he moved to the titular church of San Vitale as a cardinal priest . When King Ludwig XII. entered the war with the Papal States in October 1510, he left Rome, along with the other French prelates. Cardinal Priest of yet on March 17, 1511 Santa Sabina appointed Pope Julius II excommunicated him. October 24, 1511 and closed it from the College of Cardinals , since he at the schismatic -Nazi Council of Pisa had participated.

But de Prie, who resided in Milan , was unimpressed and continued to work for this council. The King of France appointed him Bishop of Lectoure in 1512 . However, he exchanged this diocese for that of Limoges in 1513 .

After apologizing to Pope Leo X for his errors, the latter accepted him again into the College of Cardinals on April 24, 1514 and appointed him Bishop of Limoges on August 18, 1514, where the cathedral chapter had him on November 25, 1510 elected bishop. But here too he, now also the owner of the Malpas priory, resigned as diocesan bishop on December 5, 1516.

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SURNAME Prie, René de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardinal of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH 1451
PLACE OF BIRTH Touraine
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1519
Place of death at Évreux