ETIENNE DE PONCHER (1446-1524)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V22,
Page 59
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ETIENNE DE PONCHER (1446-1524)
, French prelate and diplomatist
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After studying law he was early provided with a prebend, and became councillor at the parlement of Paris in 1485 and president of the Chambre des Enquetes in 1498
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Elected bishop of Paris in 1503 at the instance of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
XII., he was entrusted by the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
with diplomatic missions in Germany and Italy
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After being appointed chancellor of the duchy of Milan, he became keeper of the seals of France in 1512, and retained that post, until the accession of Francis I., who employed him on various diplomatic missions
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Poncher became archbishop of Sens in 1519
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His valuable Constitutions synodales was published in 1514
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