Regnault de Chartres ( in

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- 4 April 1444 in Tours) was a

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, archbishop of Rheims,

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(as Archbishop-Duke of Rheims) and

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during the reign of King

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. In 1429 during the

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he anointed and crowned the dauphin Charles

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in Rheims, thus upholding the Valois dynasty's claim to the French throne against the English claim of King

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Early life

Regnault de Chartres was born from the second marriage of his father, Hector de Chartres , Lord of Lyons-en- Beauvaisis,

((beheaded in Paris in 1418) with Blanche de Clermont- Nesle). Regnault had three brothers: Pierre de Chartres, the elder one, and Hector de Chartres the Younger (killed in 1415 at Agincourt with his two lay brothers). It is possible, but not certain, that these de Chartres belong to the notable

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of the vidames de Chartres (it is generally accepted that Regnault was related to the family of Beauvilliers; but the arms of the latter are very similar to those of the vidames, bearing ''bands and merlettes''), and / or to the Chartres family of

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from the 12th-13th centuries.

During the reign of Charles VI

He was a canon in the chapter of the Beauvais Cathedral and was elected its dean in 1404. Subsequently, he served as chamberlain and referendary of antipope John XXIII and presided over the Paris

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. He was appointed to the archbishopric of Rheims on 2 January 1414Regnault de Chartres
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) but he did not take office until 16 July 1429, the day before the coronation of Charles VII. In 1415 he attended the

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.Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des anciens barons du royaume
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. Vol. 6, 1730. (p. 399) On 16 August 1418 he was named lieutenant du roi and adviser to the Dauphin, in the provinces of Languedoc, Lyonnais and

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During the reign of Charles VII

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Charles VII in Rheims, in the presence of Joan of Arc. On 10 October, on safe conduct, he left for Saint-Denis to negotiate with the English represented by the bishop of Thérouanne,

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, counselor of Henry VI of England. On 26 July 1432 he received 600 mouton d’or from the king for negotiating a peace treaty in Auxerre. He was appointed to the

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by Pope Eugene IV in 1434, but preferred to stay in Rheims.Bibliothèque sacrée
by Charles-Louis Richard. Vol. 29,

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(Embrun & Agde p. 97, Orléans p. 15) On 6 July 1435 he was in Arras to negotiate a treaty with the Duke of Burgundy,

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, then in Calais to reduce the tensions between France and England. On 4 April 1436 he was named administrator of the bishopric of Agde, and officiated at the wedding of the Dauphin

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to Margaret of Scotland, on June 24 in Tours. Pope Eugene IV appointed him to the bishopric of Orléans ''

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'' on 17 March 1439. He took possession of it on 25 October, and officiated at the wedding of

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and Mary of Cleves in 1440 in Saint-Omer. In recognition of his services, the king obtained for him the position of cardinal: he was named cardinal at the

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held in Florence on 18 December 1439,Traité de l'indult du Parlement de Paris
by Melchior Cochet de Saint-Valier. Vol. 1,

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. (p. 76) and took over the titular church of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio on 8 January 1440.

Death

He was given the bishopric of Mende in 1444 when, after mid-Lent, he went to Tours to see Charles VII and conduct peace negotiations with England. As he was going to speak to the king, he was taken with an illness and died suddenly on 4 April 1444. He was buried in the (now destroyed) Fransciscan church. After his death his archbishopric remained vacant for almost seven months. The arms of Regnault de Chartres are emblazoned as follows: '' Argent, a two fess

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''.

References

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