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Antoine Duprat

Catholic cardinal

Summary

Catholic cardinal

Field	Value
type	Cardinal
honorific-prefix	His Eminence
name	Antoine Duprat
title	Archbishop of Sens
Chancellor of France
image	Portrait d'Antoine Duprat vers 1525.png
caption	Cardinal Duprat,
church	Catholic Church
archdiocese	Sens
appointed	20 March 1525
term_end	9 July 1535
predecessor	Étienne de Poncher
successor	Jean de Bertrand
cardinal	21 November 1527
created_cardinal_by	Pope Clement VII
birth_date	17 January 1463
birth_place	Issoire, Auvergne
death_date
death_place	Meaux, France
buried	Sens Cathedral
rank	Cardinal-Priest
other_post	Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Anastasia al Palatino
(1528-1535)
Administrator of Albi
(1528-1535)
Bishop of Meaux
(1534-1535)
previous_post	{{Indented plainlist

|honorific-prefix = His Eminence Chancellor of France (1528-1535) Administrator of Albi (1528-1535) Bishop of Meaux (1534-1535)

Bishop of Valence (1522-1524)

Antoine Duprat (17 January 1463 – 9 July 1535) was a French Cardinal and politician, who was chancellor of France.

Life

Duprat was born in Issoire in Auvergne. Educated for the law, he won a high position in his profession and in 1507 became first president of the Parlement of Paris (the highest court of France). In 1515 Francis I of France made him chancellor of France and prime minister.

In 1517, after his wife's death, he took holy orders and gradually rose in the Catholic Church hierarchy: first as bishop of several dioceses held by him in plurality; then as Archbishop of Sens, 1525; cardinal, 1527, and legate a latere, 1530. Duprat's influence extended much beyond the departments of justice and finance placed under his direct control. French historian Gabriel Hanotaux, in the introduction to his Recueil des instructions, calls Duprat

This influence was constantly exerted to strengthen royal absolute power; it was felt in the measures he took against the grands Seigneurs and in his elaborate fiscal system.

Duprat left no writings, but took a leading part in the compilation of the "Coutumes d'Auvergne"; he also did much to encourage the renaissance of letters.

Churchman

Military instructions to Ambassador to the [[Ottoman Empire]] [[Jean de La Forêt]], by Chancellor Antoine Duprat (copy), 11 February 1535.

Duprat's influence was also manifested, together with his orthodoxy, in those measures which affected the relations of France with the Church, namely, the signing of the Concordat of Bologna, and the checking of nascent Protestantism. The Concordat, which Duprat himself negotiated with Pope Leo X at Bologna, did away with the principles of the "Pragmatic Sanction"; on the other hand, by causing the appointment of the French hierarchy to rest on royal nomination instead of the old canonical elections, it vested in the civil power an authority over church affairs.

Duprat's uncompromising attitude towards Protestantism was dictated both by his political sense, as well as his Catholic orthodoxy. The Protestant sympathies of Marguerite d'Angouleme, the Duchesse d'Etampes, and the Minister du Bellay failed to move him. The Sorbonne and the Parlement were instructed to exclude the writings of the innovators; in 1534 the posting of subversive pamphlets at the door of the royal apartments cost the perpetrators their lives.

Despite being archbishop of Sens for several years, the first time he entered the cathedral there was for his own funeral.

References

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