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Étienne Poncher (Archbishop Of Tours)
Étienne Poncher (died 15 March 1553), was a French clergyman of the 16th century. He was successively Bishop of Bayonne, then Archbishop of Tours. Early life Poncher was the son of Jean Poncher, Treasurer of Tours, and Catherine Hurault. Career A Doctor of Canon Law (Catholic Church), Doctor of Canon Law, he served as abbot of (in La Roë) from 6 July 1530, Master of Requests (France), Master of Requests () in 1531, Chaplain-in-Ordinary of the King () to Francis I of France, Francis I in 1534. He allowed Étienne Amyot, Seneschal of Craon, Mayenne, Craon, to occupy La Roë Abbey in 1533, and had as vicars for the temporal and spiritual: Louis Leroux, Canon (title), Canon of Angers Cathedral, Angers, in 1542, and Georges Macé, Prior (ecclesiastical), Prior of Saint-Aignan d'Angers, in 1550. He was made Bishop of Bayonne in 1532, presiding over the general chapter at La Roë. In 1549 he set forth regulations, in thirteen articles, for the abbey of La Roë, proscribing, among o ...
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Blason Famille Fr Etienne Poncher
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the blazon, codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is , and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, irony, ironically reject ...
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