Etienne Poncher (archbishop of Direction)
Etienne Poncher , Bishop of Paris, archbishop of Direction, religious French, died in 1524.
Biography
Originating in a honourable family of Turns, rose by its merit with the first dignities. It was successively évèque of Paris, in 1503, archbishop of Sens, in 1519, president with the investigations, in 1498, and Minister of Justice in 1512. The kings Louis XII and François Ier admire it in their council and employed it in several important negotiations. It had courage to fight the blind anger of Louis XII against the Vénitien S and to be opposed to the Ligue Cambric. François Ier charged it with attracting in France the foreign scientists. Poncher deserved this honourable commission by its love lit for the letters and by its zeal to assist their renewal. He died, in 1524, regretted like a sizeable prelate, who could link the virtues of his state to the talents of his places. One estimates his synodal Constitutions , of 1514, especially for the matter of the sacraments.
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