Jacques de Dinant was a

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Bishop of Arras The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Atrebatensis (–Bononiena–Audomarensis)''; French: ''Diocèse d'Arras (–Boulogne–Saint-Omer)'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church ...

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. He was appointed

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Innocent IV Pope Innocent IV ( la, Innocentius IV; – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254. Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universitie ...

on 4 October 1247, and he resigned as bishop in 1259.
He was also a considerable scholar of the 13th century. He was educated in Northern

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and in the latter part of his life taught at the

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in the department of

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. His works include: * ''Summa Dictaminis'' * ''Breviloquium'' * ''Ars Arengandi'' * ''Sex formulae dictaminis'' * Exordia in linea clericali and * ''Exordia in linea seculari''.Emil J. Polak, A Textual Study of Jacques de Dinant's Summa Dictaminis (Librairie Droz, 1975
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