Jean de Tulles II

Jean de Tulle was a French prelate of the 17th century.[1][2][3] He died 3 October 1640 in Orange.

Family

He was of the family of the lords of Villefranche and was the nephew of his predecessor Jean de Tulles, as bishop of Orange.[4][5]

Career

Jean Tulles was appointed coadjutor of his uncle August 17, 1605 and consecrated on August 28 as a Trojan titular bishop and succeeded in August 1608. He was sent to Rome for state affairs by the Queen Regent Marie de Medici, the mother of Louis XIII and then makes its services.

He built an episcopal palace, a hospital and also a convent for the Capuchins, on request of Eleanor, wife of Philip William of Orange. Pope Paul V in 1614 gave rights for the secularization of the Chapter of the Orange cathedral.

He was succeeded by his nephew when he resigned, and Jean was appointed abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of Longis and St. Eusebius Apt.

References

  1. ↑ J. Michael Hayden, Malcolm R. Greenshields, Six Hundred Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190–1789(McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 2005) p 542
  2. ↑ Thomas Max Safley, The Reformation of Charity: The Secular and the Religious in Early Modern Poor Relief(BRILL, 1 Jan. 2003) p 175.
  3. ↑ Louis-Pierre d'Hozier, Armorial General of France, Volumes 1–2 (Firmin-Didot, 1738) p583.
  4. ↑ Hierachia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 102.
  5. ↑ Sacres Episcopaux a Rome de 1565 a 1602, number 45.


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