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JEAN BALUE (c. 1421-1491)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BALUE (c. 1421-1491)  , See also:French See also:cardinal and See also:minister of See also:Louis XI., was See also:born of very humble parentage at See also:Angle in See also:Poitou, and was first patronized by the See also:bishop of See also:Poitiers . In 1461 he became See also:vicar-See also:general of the bishop of See also:Angers . His activity, cunning and mastery of intrigue gained him the appreciation of Louis XI., who made him his See also:almoner . In a See also:short See also:time See also:Balue became a considerable personage . In 1465 he received the bishopric of See also:Evreux; the See also:king made him le premier du See also:grant conseil, and, in spite of his dissolute See also:life, obtained for him a cardinalate (1468) . But in that See also:year Balue was compromised in the king's humiliation by See also:Charles the Bold at Peronne and excluded from the See also:council . He then intrigued with Charles against his See also:master: their See also:secret See also:correspondence was intercepted, and on the 23rd of See also:April 1469 Balue was thrown into See also:prison, where he remained eleven years, but not, as has been alleged, in an See also:iron cage . In 148o, through the intervention of See also:Pope See also:Sixtus IV., he was set at See also:liberty, and from that time lived in high favour at the See also:court of See also:Rome . He received the bishopric of Albano and afterwards that of See also:Palestrina . In 1484 he was even sent to See also:France as See also:legate a latere . He died at See also:Ancona in 1491 . See See also:Henri Forgeot, " See also:Jean Balue, cardinal d'Angers " (1895), in the Bibliotheque de l'ecole See also:des hautes etudes .

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