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JOUFFROY, JEAN (c. 1412–1473)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 523 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOUFFROY, See also:JEAN (c. 1412–1473) , See also:French See also:prelate and diplomatist, was See also:born at Luxeuil (Haute–See also:Saone). After entering the See also:Benedictine See also:order and teaching at the university of See also:Paris from 1435 to 1438, he became See also:almoner to See also:Philip the See also:Good, See also:duke of See also:Burgundy, who entrusted him with See also:diplomatic See also:missions in See also:France, See also:Italy, See also:Portugal and See also:Castile. Jouffroy was appointed See also:abbot of Luxeuil (1451?) See also:bishop of See also:Arras (14.53), and papal See also:legate (14J9). At the French See also:court his diplomatic duties brought him to the See also:notice of the dauphin (afterwards See also:Louis XI.). Jouffroy entered Louis's service, and obtained a See also:cardinal's See also:hat (1461), the bishopric of See also:Albi (1462), and the abbacy of St See also:Denis (1464). On several occasions he was sent to See also:Rome to negotiate the abolition of the Pragmatic See also:Sanction and to defend the interests of the Angevins at See also:Naples. Attached by See also:King Louis to the sieur de See also:Beaujeu in the expedition against See also:John V., See also:count of See also:Armagnac, Jouffroy was accused of taking the See also:town of See also:Lectoure by treachery, and of being a party to the See also:murder of the count of Armagnac (1473). He died at Reuilly the same See also:year. See C. Fierrille, Le Cardinal Jean Jouffroy et son temps (1412–1473) (See also:Coutances, Paris, 1874).

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