Guillaume Ouvrouin (bishop of Rennes)
Guillaume Ouvrouin (death the June 12th 1347), bishop of Rennes, religious French
Biography
Member of a powerful family originating in Laval the Ouvrouin , he is the brother of Jean Ouvrouin, Sénéchal of Guy X of Laval.He had for first benefit one of the emoluments of collegial of Notre-Dame of the Borough-Kid, with which he was provided as of 1320 at the latest. Jean XII granted to him another emolument in the church of Tréguier, of which he was already canon, the March 12th 1320, and the authorization to be registered in expectancy on évêché of Tréguier, Saint-Vincet of Mans, and on the chapters of Angers and of Mans, the January 5th 1321.
Archdeacon of Plougastel, and, the July 7th 1324, the canonicat of the cathedral of the vacant Mans left by resignation of Guy of Laval, named with the évêché of Quimper. It began its rigorous in Mans, the June 30th 1325. The April 28th 1325, it took possession of temporal which Gervais Leber enjoyed, archdeacon of Montfort
The influence of Guy IX of Laval at the court of the Duc of Brittany made provide Guillaume Ouvrouin with évêché with Rennes, the May 18th 1328.
It took share with the Concile of Castle-Gontier in 1336, visited in Mans the bishop Guy of Laval in 1337, made the voyage of Rome, in 1341, showed a creditable courage during the seat of its episcopal city in 1343.
Jean II of Beaumont-Brienne was the object of serious complaints and censures on behalf of Guillaume Ouvrouin. Nonglad to insult the prelate, his suzerain, to seize its manor of Ranée where it made apportrer its grains, it had maltreated several clerks and priests, had taken some and held others; as for the messenger, carrying the letters of the bishop against him, it had seized it in the cloister of Saint-Melaine and, the sword with the hand, had forced it to eat these letters. The interdict thrown on its grounds with the dioceses of Rennes and the Mans, it had violated it and makes violate with its people. The bishop Guillaume Ouvrouing , on August 28th 1341, requested the bishops of Fraud, of Leon and Tréguier, to excommunicate him, him and his accomplices, by name Bonabbe de Rougé , knight. The non-believer went and was exonerated the November 24th 1341, on the condition of paying a fine of 3000 guilders, to return the manor of Ranée and to repair the made injustices.
He tested the May 27th 1347, and died the June 12th according to, melting of the Obit S in his cathedral, with Saint-Melaine, Saint-Georges, Rillé, Saint-Sulpice-of-Wood, and asking to be buried in the vault of Cemetery-God, built by his father and equipped by him with four chapellenies. The tomb piere, where its statue is carved, was transferred in the church from the Trinity from Laval, with an inscription which contains several errors.