Estold or Estout d'Estouteville (died 13 October 1423) was successively abbot of

Cerisy Abbey Cerisy Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Saint Vigor (french: Abbaye de Cerisy, Abbaye Saint-Vigor de Cerisy), located in Cerisy-la-Forêt (near Saint-Lô), Manche, France, was an important Rule of Saint Benedict, Benedictine monastery of Normandy. ...

Bec Abbey Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (french: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure ''département'', in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay. It is located in Le Bec Hello ...

and

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in Normandy, France.

Family

He was the son of Jean d'Estouteville (died 1356), lord of Torcy and Estoutemont, and his wife Jeanne de Fiennes. His uncle was

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. His brothers were Thomas d'Estouteville (died 1394), bishop of Beauvais, and Guillaume d'Estouteville (died 1414), bishop of Evreux, Lisieux and Auxerre. He was of the same family as

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Guillaume d'Estouteville.

Biography

Estold was a monk of Fécamp, and a

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. He was abbot of Cerisy from 1385 to 1388. In that year he became abbot of Bec, an office he resigned in 1391. He was the 23rd abbot of Fécamp from 1390 to 1423. He took the oath of fidelity to King Charles VI on 23 June 1392 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He appointed a deputy to represent him at the Council of Pisa of 1409 which elected the

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. When King

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took Fécamp, during the

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, Estold refused to take the oath of loyalty to him, but retired to his castle at

Fontaine-le-Bourg Fontaine-le-Bourg () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A village of farming and a little light industry, situated by the banks of the Cailly in the Pays de Caux, some north of Roue ...

. The property of Fécamp Abbey situate in England was then confiscated and re-granted by

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, Bishop of Durham. He died on 13 October 1423 and is buried in the nave of the abbey church of Fécamp.

References

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