18 Facts About Guillaume d'Estouteville

Guillaume d'Estouteville conducted the reexamination of the case of Jeanne d'Arc and exonerated her of the charges against her.

Guillaume d'Estouteville reformed the Statutes of the University of Paris.

Guillaume d'Estouteville's mother was Marguerite d'Harcourt, the daughter of Catherine de Bourbon, the sister of Jeanne de Bourbon who was the wife of King Charles V of France.

Chacon states that Guillaume d'Estouteville was Doctor Decretorum, but various papal documents of Pope Eugenius IV, in particular one of 1435, call him a Papal Notary, a relative of the Kings of France, a Master of Arts, and of Canon Law, as a result of having passed rigorous examinations.

Guillaume d'Estouteville did possess a Canonry in the Church of Evreux, and in 1432 he was Canon in Lyon as well.

Guillaume d'Estouteville later became commendatory abbot simultaneously of the Abbeys of Mont Saint-Michel, of Saint-Ouen at Rouen and of Montebourg.

Guillaume d'Estouteville never visited Mirepoix, but he did collect a year's income.

Guillaume d'Estouteville served in this office for three years, before being appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in Savoy.

Guillaume d'Estouteville shortened the course leading to the Doctorate in theology from fifteen to fourteen years, and he removed the requirement that Doctors of Medicine be in holy orders.

Guillaume d'Estouteville was able to command six votes out of the nineteen participants, but he was defeated by Cardinal Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini of Siena, who chose the name Pope Pius II.

In 1458 Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville was asked by the Teutonic Knights to be their Protector at the Roman Curia, an honor and office which he accepted.

Guillaume d'Estouteville wrote to Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, seeking his support and that of the four cardinals who were 'Friends of the Prince'.

Guillaume d'Estouteville is credited with building the Church of S Agostino at Cori and the Church of S Agostino at Tolentino.

Guillaume d'Estouteville's remains were buried in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino.

Guillaume d'Estouteville's heart was removed, as was the custom, and taken to be placed in the tomb he had built for himself in the Cathedral of Rouen.

Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville performed a number of episcopal consecrations in Rome as part of his duties in the Roman Curia.

Guillaume d'Estouteville has the distinction of being the origin of the oldest extant, traceable episcopal lineage within the Catholic Church and the most numerous non-Rebiban lineage.

The fact that there is a "Guillaume d'Estouteville Line", therefore, is an accident of missing information.