- Guillaume Pellicier
Guillaume Pellicier (c. 1490 – 1568) (Guillaume Pellissier) was a French prelate and diplomat.
Born at
Melgueil inLanguedoc , he was educated by his uncle, thebishop of Maguelonne , whom he succeeded in 1529. In 1536 he was transferred toMontpellier .Francis I entrusted him with several important missions; in 1529 he accompanied
Louise de Savoie toCambrai and concluded peace with Charles V. In 1533 atMarseilles he arranged withClement VII for the marriage of the Duc d'Orléans (Henri II) andCatherine de' Medici . He obtained permission for the translation of his Episcopal see from Maguelonne to Montpellier fromPaul III in 1536.Appointed ambassador at
Venice in 1539, he fulfilled his mission to the entire satisfaction of Francis I, and brought back a large number of Greek, Syriac, and Hebrew Manuscript. On the discovery of the system of espionage he had employed, the king had to recall him in 1542. Returning to his diocese, he was imprisoned in the castle of Beaucaire for his tolerance of the Reformers, so he replaced his former indulgence by severity, and the end of his episcopate was disturbed by religious struggles. He was a man of wide learning, a humanist and a friend of humanists, and took a keen interest in the natural sciences.References
*1911
*Catholic|Guillaume Pellissier
*See J. Zeller," _fr. La Diplomatie française après le correspondance de G. Pellicier" (Paris, 188f) ; and A. Tausserat-Radel, "Correspondence politique de Guillaume Pellicier" (Paris, 1899).
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