Jean Jouffroy (c. 1412–1473) was a French

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and diplomat. He was born at

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(

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order and teaching at the

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from 1435 to 1438, he became

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to Philip the Good,

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, who entrusted him with diplomatic missions in France,

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and Castile. Jouffroy was appointed abbot of Luxeuil (1451?),

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(1453), and papal legate (1459). At the French court his diplomatic duties brought him to the notice of the dauphin (afterwards

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). Jouffroy entered Louis's service, and obtained a cardinal's hat (1461), the bishopric of Albi (1462), and the abbacy of St Denis (1464). There was resistance from other cardinals to his being given a red hat by

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, but the pope insisted. On several occasions he was sent to

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to negotiate the abolition of the

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and to defend the interests of the Angevins at

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. Attached by King Louis to the sieur de Beaujeu in the expedition against

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, Jouffroy was accused of taking the town of

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by treachery, and of being a party to the murder of the count of Armagnac (1473). He died at Reuilly the same year.

Books

* C. Fierrille, ''Le Cardinal Jean Jouffroy et son temps (1412–1473)'' (Coutances, Paris, 1874)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jouffroy, Jean 1412 births 1473 deaths People from Luxeuil-les-Bains 15th-century French cardinals Bishops of Albi Bishops of Arras Diplomats of the Holy See French Benedictines