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JEAN JOUFFROY (c. 1412–1473)

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

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