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JEAN DE MARIGNY (d. 1350)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN DE See also:MARIGNY (d. 1350)  , See also:French See also:bishop, was a younger See also:brother of the preceding . Entering the See also:church at an See also:early See also:age, he was rapidly advanced until in 1313 he was made bishop of See also: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 See also:King See also:Philip VI . He devoted himself in 1335 to the completion of the See also:choir of Beauvais See also:Cathedral, the enormous windows of which were filled with the richest See also:glass . But this See also:building activity, which has See also:left one of the most notable See also:Gothic monuments in See also:Europe, was broken into by the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War . See also:Jean de See also:Marigny, a successful See also:administrator and See also:man of affairs rather than a saintly churchman, was made one of the king's lieutenants in See also:southern See also:France in 1341 against the See also:English invasion . His most important military operation, how-ever, was when in 1346 he successfully held out in Beauvais against a See also:siege by the English, who had overrun the See also:country up to the walls of the See also:city . Created See also:archbishop of See also:Rouen in 1347 as a See also:reward for this See also:defence, he enjoyed his new honours only three years; he died on the 26th of See also:December 1350 .

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