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ESTOUTEVILLE, GUILLAUME

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESTOUTEVILLE, See also:GUILLAUME D' (1403-1483), See also:French ecclesiastic, was See also:bishop of See also:Angers, of See also:Digne, of See also:Porto and See also:Santa Rufina, of See also:Ostia and See also:Velletri, See also:archbishop of See also:Rouen, See also:prior of See also:Saint See also:Martin See also:des Champs, See also:abbot of Mont St See also:Michel, of St Ouen at Rouen, and of Montebourg. He was sent to See also:France as See also:legate by See also:Pope See also:Nicholas V. to make See also:peace between See also:Charles VII. and See also:England (1451), and undertook, ex officio, the revision of the trial of See also:Joan of Arc; he afterwards reformed the statutes of the university of See also:Paris. He then went to preside over the See also:assembly of See also:clergy which met at See also:Bourges to discuss the observation of the Pragmatic See also:Sanction (see See also:BASEL, See also:COUNCIL OF), finally returning to See also:Rome, where he passed almost all the See also:rest of his See also:life. He was a See also:great builder, Rouen, Mont St Michel, See also:Pontoise and Gaillon owing many See also:noble buildings to his initiative.

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