
Arnaud de Via (died 24 November 1335) was a French cardinal in the
Roman Catholic Church
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. Arnaud's brother
Jacques
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was also a cardinal and their mother was sister to
pope John XXII
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.
Life
Born in
Cahors
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, he became a
protonotary apostolic, archdeacon of
Fréjus
Fréjus (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Var (department), Var Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in Southeastern France.
It neighbours Saint-Raphaël, Var, Saint-Raphaël ...
,
provost
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of
Barjols
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At the gateway to Haute Provence and the hills of Var, near the Verdon gorges and the Lake of St. Croix, the town is set on a li ...
and prior of ''S. Nicola de
Bari
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''. He was made a cardinal in the consistory of 20 June 1317. He built the
Petit Palais
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Built for the Exposition Universelle (1900), 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...
in Avignon, a residence at
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
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History
In the 6th century the Benedictine abbey of St André was fou ...
and the
collégiale Notre-Dame, intended to receive his tomb and granted a chapter of 12 canons. He took part in the
papal conclave
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of 1334 which elected
pope Benedict XII
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[Louis Duhamel, « Un neveu de Jean XXII, le cardinal Arnaud de Via », in ''Bulletin monumental'', 1883, 5e série, tome 11, numero 49, p. 401-43]
(''read online'')
/ref> and died in Avignon
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.
References
14th-century French cardinals
People from Cahors
Avignon Papacy
1335 deaths
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