Nicolas de Besse

Cardinal

Nicolas de Besse
Cardinal-Deacon
ChurchSanta Maria in Via Lata (1344-1369)
DioceseLimoges (1343-1344)
Orders
Consecrationnever consecrated
Created cardinal19 May 1344
by Pope Clement VI
Personal details
Born1322
Diocese of Limoges
Died5 November 1369
Rome, IT
BuriedCathedral of Limoges
NationalityLimousin
ParentsJacques de Besse
Almodie (Delphine) Roger
Occupationcleric
Stemma of Cardinal Nicolas de Besse

Nicolas de Besse was born in the diocese of Limoges, in 1322.[1] He was a French bishop and Cardinal. He was the son of Jacques de Besse, Seigneur de Bellefaye and Almodie (Delphine) Roger, sister of Pope Clement VI.[2] He had a brother Pierre de Besse, who became Seigneur de Bellefaye and who married Margueritte de Thiers.[3] Nicolas de Besse died in Rome on 5 November 1369.

  1. ^ Auguste Du Boys; François Arbellot (1854). Biographie des hommes illustres de l'ancienne province du Limousin. p. 65.
  2. ^ Étienne Baluze (1708). Histoire généalogique de la maison d' Auvergne: justifiée par chartres, titres, histoires anciennes et autres preuves authentiques (in French). Paris: Antoine Dezallier. pp. 315–316.
  3. ^ Abel Poitrineau (1970). Le mémoire sur l'état de la Généralité de Riom en 1697 (in French). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Univ Blaise Pascal. p. 97. ISBN 978-2-87741-006-9.

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