Henri_de_Villars_(died_1354)

Henri de Villars (died 1354)

Henri de Villars (died 1354)

Add article description


Henri de Villars otherwise Henri de Thoire-Villars (died 1354) was a 14th-century French prelate, latterly archbishop of Lyon.[1]

for Henri de Villars, Archbishop of Vienne, see Henri de Villars (died 1693)
Blazon de Villars family

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, later sacristan and chamarier (the superintendent of the archbishop's finances). In 1333 he was appointed Bishop of Viviers and in 1336 Bishop of Valence and Die.[2] In 1342 he was elected Archbishop of Lyon.[3]

On 28 April 1343, the Dauphin Humbert II appointed him vicar of the Dauphiné, of which he was the last governor before the sale of the principality to France in 1349.[citation needed]


References

  1. Guy Allard, Les gouverneurs et les lieutenans au gouvernement de Dauphiné. Grenoble, Jean Verdier, 1704 (repr. by H. Gariel, Grenoble, 1864)
  2. Hierarchia Catholica medii-aevi, Volume 1, pp. 316, 513, 533

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Henri_de_Villars_(died_1354), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.