Guillaume Thurey, born in Burgundy towards 1326, died 12 May 1365, was a French clergyman, and Bishop. He was successively canon–

Count of Lyon In France of the Ancien Régime, the title of Count of Lyon was purely honorific. There had been a count of Lugdunensis, a military governor, in the early 5th-century Roman Notitia dignitatum, and among the Merovingians an Armentarius was count ...

in 1336,

Bishop of Autun The Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Augustodunensis (–Cabillonensis–Matisconensis–Cluniacensis)''; French: ''Diocèse d'Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny)''), more simpl ...

in 1351, then Archbishop of Lyon in 1358. He was the uncle of

Philippe III de Thurey Philippe Thurey (died in Lyon 28 November 1415) was an archbishop of Lyon. The nephew William II de Thurey, himself archbishop of Lyon, Philippe was born in Narbonne to 1335 Girard Thurey and Jeanne de la Palud and was the brother of Peter Thure ...

, Archbishop of Lyon.Étienne Joseph Poullin de Lumina, ''Histoire de l'église de Lyon'', 1770

Career

In 1348 William of Thurey founded, with his brother, Girard, a chapel in the church of

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. In 1349 he accompanied Henry de Villars, Archbishop of Lyon, to get and escort Charles, Dauphin of France. In 1358 he was made Archbishop of Lyon. His appointment was made with support of the

King of France France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the first ...

who wanted the removal of the previous bishop and kings near relative,

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. Charles had used his position as

archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...

to firmly resist royal encroachment on his rights as

Primate of France Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including hum ...

and Guillaume II de Thurey was chosen as the Thurey family had been strong supporters of the king. In 1358, he sent a contingent under the command of his brother Girard Thurey against the

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bandits who had occupied Pont-Saint-Esprit. For this he was thanked by

Pope Innocent VI Pope Innocent VI ( la, Innocentius VI; 1282 or 1295 – 12 September 1362), born Étienne Aubert, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 December 1352 to his death in September 1362. He was the fifth Avignon pope a ...

. He died on 12 May 1365 and is buried at Lyon in the sanctuary of St. John's Church.

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