François de Dinteville (1477–1530) was a French nobleman who has been elected as Bishop of Sisteron and later Bishop of Auxerre.

Cutout of the leaded glass window No. 9 (16. Century) in the Catholic parish church of Saint-Martin (Collégiale Saint-Martin) in Montmorency, representation: St. Franz of Assisi and the founder (kneeling) François de Dinteville, Bishop of Auxerre (see: Dominique Foussard, Charles Huet, Mathieu Lours: Églises du Val-d'Oise. Pays de France, Vallée de Montmorency, Société d'Histoire et d'Archeologie de Gonesse et du Pays de France, 2. Edition, Gonesse 2011, ISBN 9782953155426)

Biography

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After a legal training in Pavia as doctor of both laws, he became Bishop of Sisteron in 1507. He was Bishop of Auxerre from 1513 to his death. The Hours of François de Dinteville (1525) were acquired by the British Museum in 1852 and are now in the British Library.[1]

His successor was another François de Dinteville (1498-1556), his nephew, who had been Bishop of Riez from 1527 to 1530. Dinteville the Younger held the diocese of Auxerre until his death on 27 September 1556.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Barker, Nicolas (1989) Treasures of the British Library; compiled by Nicolas Barker and the curatorial staff of the British Library. New York: Harry N. Abrams ISBN 0-8109-1653-3; p. 132
  2. ^ Conradus Eubel (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 125.
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