Jean d'Orléans-Longueville

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Jean d'Orléans-Longueville (Château de Parthenay 1484 — Tarascon 24 September 1533), Cardinal de Longueville was the third son of François d'Orleans, duc de Longueville and comte de Dunois, and Agnes of Savoy;[1] thus he was kin to Louis XI and Louis XII of France. He was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church for six months in 1533.[2] He was abbot in commendam of Bec, and concurrently archbishop of Toulouse (1503) and bishop of Orléans (1521).


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  1. ^ Genealogy.
  2. ^ He was made a cardinal 3 March 1533 by Pope Clement VII as part of his thirteenth Consistory.

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