:''for Henri de Villars,

Archbishop of Vienne The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Lyon. History The legend according to whi ...

, see

Henri de Villars (died 1693) :''for Henri de Villars, Archbishop of Lyon, see Henri de Villars (died 1354)'' Henri de Villars (c. 1621–December 27, 1693) was a French prelate, latterly Archbishop of Vienne from 1662 to his death. Life Henri was born in Rome, the son of ...

Blason ville fr Villars-les-Dombes (Ain)

Henri de Villars otherwise Henri de Thoire-Villars (died 1354) was a 14th-century French

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, latterly

archbishop of Lyon The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops ...

Life

Henri was the son of Humbert V, sire of Thoire and Villars, and his wife Leonora de Beaujeu, and a nephew of Louis de Villars, Archbishop of Lyon. He was a canon of the chapter in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, later

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and ''chamarier'' (the superintendent of the archbishop's finances). In 1333 he was appointed

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and in 1336 Bishop of Valence and Die. In 1342 he was elected

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.''Hierarchia Catholica medii-aevi'', Volume 1, pp. 316, 513, 533 On 28 April 1343, the Dauphin Humbert II appointed him

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of the

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, of which he was the last governor before the sale of the principality to

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in 1349.

References

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