1. Jean Balue's services were as much military as ecclesiastical, bringing him the critical task of defending the city of Paris against the King's enemies.
23 Facts About Jean Balue
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Jean Balue was born of very humble parentage at Angles-sur-l'Anglin in Poitou.
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Jean Balue had a brother Antoine and a brother Nicolas.
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Jean Balue was first patronized by the bishop of Poitiers, Jacques Juvenel des Ursins.
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Not satisfied with the result, Jean Balue carried an appeal to the King.
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Jean Balue was introduced to the Lieutenant-General of Paris and the Ile-de-France, Charles de Melun, whose father was Governor of Champagne and Brie and Governor of the Bastille.
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Jean Balue acquired a number of other benefices during the year 1464.
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Jean Balue was made Abbot Commendatory of Fecamp, Abbot Commendatory of Saint-Thierry de Reims, and Abbot Commendatory of Saint-Jean-d'Angely.
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Jean Balue was named Prior of Saint-Eloi-de-Paris, and Saint-Jean-des-Sables.
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Jean Balue refused to go, demonstrating yet again his commitment to Gallican liberties and the Pragmatic Sanction.
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Melun was named Lieutenant-General, and Jean Balue was ordered to see to the defenses.
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Jean Balue advised him to go to the King with his entire army, Melun opposed him.
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Whether true or not, Charles flatly refused the King's request and Jean Balue had to give a completely negative report of the mission.
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Thomas Basin remarks that the King held Jean Balue to be velut fidissimum omnium mortalium hominum amicum.
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Jean Balue was determined to recover territories which his father had sold to Louis XI to raise money for a crusade.
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Louis decided to place all of the blame on Jean Balue, who found himself excluded from the Council.
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Jean Balue then intrigued with Charles against the King, revealing details of the King's secret plans.
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Jean Balue remained a prisoner for eleven years, but not, as has been alleged, in an iron cage.
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Jean Balue was then named Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Angers, superseding the Cardinal and his officers.
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Notwithstanding the work of the commission, Cardinal Jean Balue received permission to enter Rome along with Cardinal della Rovere, who was returning from his mission as Legate to France.
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From that time Cardinal Jean Balue lived in high favour at the court of Rome.
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In 1484 Jean Balue was sent to France as Legate a latere, by Pope Sixtus IV, but he was not received there as such.
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In 1485, following the wishes of Pope Innocent VIII, Cardinal Jean Balue instituted the Feast of the Visitation in the diocese of Angers, to which he never returned.