JEAN DE

See also:

• MARIGNY, ENGUERRAND DE (1260-1315)
• JEAN DE MARIGNY (d. 1350)

MARIGNY (d. 1350)  , French bishop, was a younger brother of the preceding . Entering the church at an early age, he was rapidly advanced until in 1313 he was made bishop of Beauvais . During the next twenty years he was one of the most notable of the members of the French episcopate, and was particularly in favour with King Philip VI . He devoted himself in 1335 to the completion of the choir of Beauvais Cathedral, the enormous windows of which were filled with the richest glass . But this building activity, which has left one of the most notable Gothic monuments in Europe, was broken into by the Hundred Years' War . Jean de Marigny, a successful administrator and man of affairs rather than a saintly churchman, was made one of the king's lieutenants in southern France in 1341 against the English invasion . His most important military operation, how-ever, was when in 1346 he successfully held out in Beauvais against a siege by the English, who had overrun the country up to the walls of the city . Created archbishop of Rouen in 1347 as a reward for this defence, he enjoyed his new honours only three years; he died on the 26th of December 1350 .