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Pierre Bertrand de Colombier (1299–1361),
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and
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, was born at Colombier in
Ardèche Ardèche (; oc, Ardecha; frp, Ardecha) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.Pierre Bertrand of
Annonay Annonay (; oc, Anonai) is a commune and largest city in the north of the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It is the most populous commune in the Ardèche department although it is not the capital ...
. After a careful juristic education he was successively advocate at the parlement of Paris, intendant of the council of the
count of Nevers The counts of Nevers were the rulers of the County of Nevers, which became a French duchy in 1539, with the rulers of the duchy calling themselves dukes. History The history of the County of Nevers is closely connected to the Duchy of Burgundy. ...
(1321), and counsellor-clerk to the ''parlement'' (1329). Having taken holy orders, he became dean of St Quentin in 1330, and was employed to negotiate the marriage of the duke of Normandy, the future king John the Good of France, with the daughter of the
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. In 1335 he became bishop of Nevers, in 1339 bishop of Arras, and contributed to bring the county of
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into the kingdom of France. Created cardinal priest of St Susanna in 1344, he was employed by the
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on important missions, notably to negotiate peace or an
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between France and England. Having become
bishop of Ostia The Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia is an ecclesiastical territory located within the Metropolitan City of Rome in Italy. It is one of the seven suburbicarian dioceses. The incumbent Bishop is cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. Since ...
in 1353, he was sent next year to Charles IV of Germany, and induced him to come to Italy to be crowned emperor at Rome, 1355. In 1356 he went to France to try to arrange a peace with
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, and died in 1361 at the priory of Montaud near
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*Mazon, A., ''Essai historique sur l'état du Vivarais pendant la guerre de cent ans'' (Paris, 1889)
Catholic Encyclopedia article on Pierre Bertrand and his uncle
* * 1299 births 1361 deaths People from Ardèche 14th-century French cardinals Cardinal-bishops of Ostia 14th-century diplomats Bishops of Arras Bishops of Nevers Medieval French diplomats {{France-RC-cardinal-stub