Guy the Clerk

Guy the Clerk , religious French of the 16th century, bishop of Leon of 1514 with 1521, died between the April 29th and the August 22nd 1523 with Chemazé, chaplain of two queens.

Biography

Origin

It was of the family as of the Clerk of Coulaines which would be a branch of that of Juigné detached since Jean the Clerk, said the young person, wire of Nicolas the Clerk, siegnor of Juigné, Coulaines, Vigneau, etc, and of Jeanne de Bouvard, married towards 1395.

Monk

Abbot of Roë (1493 - 1523), it wanted to establish with the Château of Saint-Ouen de Chemazé its residence. Alexandre VI still gives order to the abbot of Holy-Catherine and to the prior of Solesmes to put to Guy the Clerk in possession of his abbey, on May 16th, 1498, though it had been installed since 1495.

He made with the abbey in 1505, of arrangements which left him the whole pleasure of the field and gave up with the prior-priest of Chemazé the place of Saint-Aubin-of-Wood.

Bishop of the Leon

Guy was prior of the Chaplaincy of Saint-Jean-in Angers and it is from there that, the May 15th 1514, it gave procuration to Guy Vailland, ordinary wine waiter and clerk of the vault of the duchess of Brittany, to take possession of évêché of Leon. He will be bishop of Leon of 1514 with 1521. Leon X had just provided it, constituent with the clergy, vassal and faithful to receive it for successor of Jean de Carman, recently deceased; with the archbishop to approve it like suffragan; and with Claude of France, Duchess of Brittany, to admit it, March 28th 1514. The same day, it exonerated it AD cautelam censures which it could have incurred; and three days after it sent the formula of the oath to him which it was to lend.

Arts

Guy the Clerk maintained a troop workmen whom it mentions in his will. He had the means of them, having been consequently or since abbot of Roë, of Saint-Aubin-of-Wood, Saint-Jacques-with-Montfort, bishop of Leon, chaplain of two queens. Lastly, the Abbé Angot announces that it found in the circle of his friends, Simon Hayeneuve, able to give the drawing and to direct the execution of the square tower of the Château of Saint-Ouen de Chemazé. Guy the Clerk, rained himself in this abbey manor, in spite of his fasteners with the court, and his appointment with évêché of Leon. Two years before its death, it was fixed at it definitively and it is there that it died.

Died

In its last disease, by act of the April 11th 1523, it had founded a solemn birthday the Friday of the Four-stroke, and the day of its death, and a Stabat , every Friday, in the vault of the Madeleine. It bases with the abbey 5 birthdays, and a Subvenite on its tomb and its burial . The witnesses are Jean Vegeais, of the minor brothers, Pierre Malehyre, priest, noble Rene man of the Cross and Rene Lemelle, prosecutor of Castle-Gontier, and Guillaume Garnier.

The April 29th, it dictates its will, demand eà to be buried with the chorus or to the chanceau of the church in the opinion of its executors, gives 500 pounds to marry the poor girls, including 200 pounds for damoiselle Francoise Affagard, her niepce , and 100 pounds with damoiselle Louise Affagard. It leaves with its successor all his pieces of furniture of the Abbaye of Montfort. Its executors are: Christophe de Chauvigné, to which it had resigned évêché of Leon, and who was present; Michel Richer, prior of Chemazé and future abbot of Roë; Christophe the Clerk, his nephew; and Jean Poisson de Gastines, live Angers. May 6th, the monks assembled in chapter to which one read out will thank the testator for his benefits last and present, and state to accept the will.

See too

Castle of Saint-Ouen de Chemazé

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