Guillaume de Chanac (died December 30, 1383) was a French
Benedictine
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, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
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who became a
Cardinal.
He was abbot at
Bèze Abbey
The Bèze Abbey (french: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, Saint-Paul de Bèze), was a monastery founded in 629 AD in Burgundy, France.
It was destroyed several times during the next three centuries by Frankish warlords, Saracens, Normans and Hungarians.
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, and then was abbot at
Saint-Florent from 1354 to 1368. He was
Bishop of Chartres
The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the ...
and then
Bishop of Mende, for brief periods up to 1371.
He supported the Collège de Chanac Pompadour in Paris,
Famille Chanac
named after his great-uncle of the same name.
Notes
External links
Epitaph, old dictionary page with short biography
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Year of birth unknown
1383 deaths
French Benedictines
14th-century French cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Frascati
Bishops of Chartres
Bishops of Mende