Adrien Gouffier de Boissy

Adrien Gouffier de Boissy (towards 1479 - 1523) is the son of Guillaume Gouffier, lord of Boissy, in Poitou, favorite of the kings Charles VII and Louis XI, and brother of Artus, which was Chambellan, like his/her father, and large main from France, while an other of his/her brothers, Aymard, succeeded to him on the seat of Albi, the Adrien young person high at the court and, was intended for the Église, accepted various rich person ecclesiastical benefit early, which will not prevent it from having a girl natural, Marguerite, legitimated by royal letters in February 1543.

Senior of Thouars (1503), it obtained évêché of Coutances on April 15th, 1510, then, after having been protonotaire apostolic since 1493 (at 14 years), was promoted by Leon X with the cardinalat under the Saint-Marcellin-and-Pierre, on December 14th, 1515 and was named Grand chaplain of France (November 1516). He was the speaker of the clergy in the assembly of Large' the Room of the Parlement of Paris, convened in February 1517 for the recording of the Concordat of Bologna signed the previous year. In 1518, he inherited the dignity of legate has latere the Holy See in France, which made of him the ecclesiastical figure most powerful and more in sight in the kingdom.

Moreover, the cardinal-legate did not deprive himself to benefit largely from the office plurality from the benefit S. Ainsi, évêché well the revenue of Albi has suddenly been occupied by the death of Jacques Robertet on May 26th, 1518, he was made it allocate in administrationem by Leon X, and when François I {{er}} invited Henri VIII of England to the famous interview of the Camp of the Cloth of Gold to Ardres, the cardinal forwarded to him “hundred casks of wine of évesché sound of Alby” which he had put out of warehouse in the storerooms of Rouen. He took personal possession in his good town of Albi, from which he was high and low lord, on November 16th, 1522, three years and half after his nomination, and its entry is achieved according to the traditional ceremonial, namely that he went initially in the collegiate church Saint-Salvi to venerate there the relic of his predecessor mérovingien, and that from there, he was escorted processionnellement by the nobility, the officers of the King and the consuls of the commune in delivered to his palate. It was to hardly remain besides in Albi, because it died nine months after, on July 24th, 1523, in its castle of Villendren-on Indre, close to Issoudun, and it was buried in the abbey church of Déols.

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