A New And General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Historical And Critical
A New And General Biographical Dictionary Containing An Historical And Critical
William Tooke
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Duprat, powerful by the authority of Louifa of Savoy, mother of the king, purfued his own meafures without fear orreftraint. Having attended Francis I. Into Italy, he perfuadefl that prince to aboliih the Pragmatic Sanction, and to make the Concordat, by which the pope bellowed on the king the right of dominating to the benefices of France, and the king 23$ D U P R A T. king granted to the pope the annates of the grand benefices oti the footing of current revenue. This Concordat, figned Dec. 16..., 1515, rendered him fo much the more odious to the magiitrates and ecclefiaftics, as he was accufed of having fold himfelf to the pope. He foon reaped the fruits of his devotion to the court of Rome ; for, having embraced the ecclefiaflical profeflion, he was fucceffively raifed to the bimoprics of Meaux, of Albi, of Va- lence, of Die, of Gap, to the archbiihopric of Sens, and at laft to the purple in 1527. Being appointed legate a latere in France, he performed the coronation of queen' Eleonora of Auftria.
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