Guillaume V Arnaud de La Mothe was a fourteenth century
Catholic
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Bishop
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of
Bazas
Bazas (; oc-gsc, Vasats) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
Geography
Bazas stands on a narrow promontory above the Beuve valley 60 km/37 mi southeast of Bordeaux and 40 km/25 mi southwest of ...
and
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
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, both in
France
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.
Bishops of Oloron
at GCatholic Website.
He was Bishop of Bazas
Bazas (; oc-gsc, Vasats) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
Geography
Bazas stands on a narrow promontory above the Beuve valley 60 km/37 mi southeast of Bordeaux and 40 km/25 mi southwest of ...
from 1302 until 1313, and again in 1319. In 1313 he was transferred by pope Clement V
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to Saintes, Charente-Maritime
Saintes (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Sénte'') is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are called ''Saintaises'' and ''Saintais ...
but he arranged to exchange see with his nephew Thibaut or Théobald de Castillon, his replacement at Bazas
Bazas (; oc-gsc, Vasats) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
Geography
Bazas stands on a narrow promontory above the Beuve valley 60 km/37 mi southeast of Bordeaux and 40 km/25 mi southwest of ...
. He died at Saintes in 1313.
References
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14th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops of Bazas