Guillaume Chartier ( 1386 – 1 May 1472) was a French bishop.

Biographie

Born in

Bayeux Bayeux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...

, Guillaume was the brother of

Alain Chartier Alain Chartier (1430) was a French poet and political writer. Life Alain Chartier was born in Bayeux to a family marked by considerable ability. His eldest brother Guillaume became bishop of Paris; and Thomas became notary to the king. Jean C ...

. He was appointed

bishop of Paris The Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Parisiensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Paris'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France ...

on 6 December 1447. Twelve years later he was France's ambassador to the

Council of Mantua The Council of Mantua of 1459, or Congress of Mantua, was a religious meeting convoked by Pope Pius II, who had been elected to the Papacy in the previous year and was engaged in planning war against the Ottoman Turks, who had taken Constantinople ...

, at which delivered a speech in Latin which lasted over two hours. He backed cathedral chapters' rights to elect bishops against royal attempts to take over that right. During the

League of the Public Weal The War of the Public Weal (French: ''La guerre du Bien public'') was a conflict between the king of France and an alliance of feudal nobles, organized in 1465 in defiance of the centralized authority of King Louis XI of France. It was masterminded ...

era he joined the ''mécontents''. He held onto his bishopric until his death, but

Louis XI of France Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (french: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revo ...

recorded his hostility on Chartier's tomb - that epitaph was later replaced by a more honourable one.M. G. du Fresne de Beaucourt, Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, 3ème série, 8ème volume, 1870, Derache, Paris. This documen
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contains a detailed study on Chartier.

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*Clavel de St Geniez, ''Histoire chrétienne des diocèses de France, de Belgique, de Savoie et des bords du Rhin'', 1885 People from Bayeux Bishops of Paris 1274 deaths 15th-century French Roman Catholic bishops {{France-RC-bishop-stub