Louis de Gorrevod
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Louis de Gorrevod (died 1535) was a Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography
Louis de Gorrevod was born in Piedmont ca. 1473, the son of Jean de Gorrevod and Jeanne de Loriol-Challes.[1] His family was a collateral branch of the counts of Pont-de-Vaux.[1]
Early in his career, he was a protonotary apostolic.[1] He was also the Almoner of the Duke of Savoy.[1] On January 27, 1499, he became a canon of the cathedral chapter of St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva.[1]
On August 9, 1499, he was elected Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, though he continued to live in Geneva.[1] In 1501, he officiated at the marriage of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy and Margaret of Austria in Romainmôtier.[1] From 1507 to 1509, he occasionally filled in for François Brunaud, auxiliary bishop of Geneva.[1] He was the ambassador of the Duchy of Savoy at the Fifth Council of the Lateran (1512–17), where he strongly supported the rights of the pope.[1] In 1515, he became the first Bishop of Bourg-en-Bresse.[1] The diocese was suppressed in 1516, but reestablished in 1521 by Pope Leo X.[1]
Pope Clement VII made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of March 9, 1530.[1] He received the red hat and the titular church of San Cesareo in Palatio on May 16, 1530.[1] On December 5, 1530, the pope made him papal legate to all the states of Savoy.[1] He resigned his see in favor of his nephew Jean-Philibert de Challes on April 10, 1532.[1]
He did not participate in the papal conclave of 1534 that elected Pope Paul III.[1] The new pope issued a papal bull again suppressing the diocese of Bourg-en-Bresse.[1]
Cardinal de Gorrevod died in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne on April 22, 1535.[1] He is buried in the cathedral in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church