François Richardot

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François Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to Margaret of Parma. He was Bishop of Arras from 1561-1574.

He was an Augustinian Hermit, and became titular bishop of Nicopolis in 1554.

He preached the sermon at the funeral of the Emperor Charles V[1], and at the inauguration in 1562 of the University of Douai he was one of the preachers[2]

[edit] References

  • Léon Duflot (1897), Un orateur du 16e siècle: François Richardot évêque d'Arras

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique, p. 300; Théodore Juste (1860), Histoire de la révolution des Pays Bas sous Philippe II, p. 111.
  2. ^ PDF, in French.
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