Renaud de Bar (bishop of Metz)
See also: Renaud de Bar
Renaud de Bar is the 67e bishop of Metz of 1302 with 1316. It was wire of Thiébaut {{II}}, count de Bar and of Jeanne de Toucy.
It was named canon with Rheims, Laon, Verdun and Cambrai, then, before 1298, archdeacon with Brussels, then archdeacon with Besancon in 1299. In 1301 it is named canon and princely Metz, then in 1302 provost of the Madeleine with Verdun.
In the middle of the year 1302, it is elected bishop of Metz, but the election was regarded as irregular because the pope had reserved the possibility of naming itself the holder of this seat. To solve the problem and to spare the clergy of Metz, while saving the face, Boniface {{VIII}} broke the election, but named Renaud with the episcopal see immediately. He was the only prelate of the Archidiocèse of Trier to assist in 1312 with the Concile of Vienna, convened by the pope Clément {{V}}. The principal action of this council was to declare the suppression of the Ordre of the Temple.
It had to fight against the duke of Lorraine Thiébaud {{II}}, then against the magistrates of Metz. It had to be withdrawn in the Metz-native countryside and died on May 4th, 1316, poisoned seems it.
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