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Antoine Bohier Du Prat (c. 1460 – 27 November 1519) was a
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Antoine Bohier Du Prat (c. 1460 – 27 November 1519) was a French
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Roman Catholic
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bishop
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and cardinal
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.
Biography
Antoine Bohier Du Prat was born inIssoire
Issoire (; Auvergnat: ''Issoire'', ''Ussoire'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Geography
Issoire is located on the river Couze, near its confluence with the Allier, SSE of Clermont-Ferrand on the ...
, ca. 1460, the son of Austremoine Bohier, baron
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of Saint-Ciergues, and Anne Du Prat.Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church/ref> He was the cousin of Cardinal
Antoine Duprat
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 beca ...
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He entered the Order of Saint Benedict
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at Fécamp Abbey
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. There, he was ordained
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as a priest
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. He became a president of the ''Parlement of Rouen
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''.
He resisted being raised to the episcopate until the queen mother
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of France
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, Louise of Savoy
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, personally entreated him. After he agreed, on 13 November 1514, he was elected Archbishop of Bourges
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. On 22 November 1514 he was granted permission to wear the Religious habit
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of a secular archbishop rather than the habit of the Benedictine Order. He was Archbishop of Bourges until his death.
Pope Leo X
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Born into the prominent political and banking Med ...
made him a cardinal priest
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in the consistory
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*A papal consistory, a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
*Consistor ...
of 1 April 1517. On 27 April 1517, he was granted permission to wear a cardinal's habit instead of the habit of his order. He received the red hat
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and the titular church
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of Sant'Anastasia
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Sant'Anastasia borders the following municipalities: Casalnuovo di Napoli, Ercolano, Pollena Trocchia, ...
on 25 May 1517.
He died at the court
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of Francis I of France
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at Blois
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With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the mos ...
, on 27 November 1519. He was buried in Bourges Cathedral
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