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Portrait Jean De La Balue Gravure XVIIe - 1644 Dimensions toute la feuille : 16 x 22,5 cm Dimensions au coup de planche : 10 x 12 cm rousseurs & auréoles en lisières Jean de la Balue, né en 1421 à Angles-sur-l'Anglin et mort en octobre 1491 à Ripatransone (Italie) à l'âge de 70 ans, cardinal connu pour avoir été accusé de trahison et longtemps emprisonné par Louis XI. Il fut un personnage très influent auprès de Louis XI. Nommé évêque d'Évreux par le roi de France le 4 février 1465, il est confirmé par le pape le 20 mai. Il est consacré le 4 août 1465 à la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris par Guillaume Chartier, évêque de Paris et prend possession de son siège le 22 août suivant. Le pape le fit cardinal en son absence lors du consistoire du 18 septembre 1467. Il reçoit le titre de Sainte-Susanne le 13 mai 1468 et son chapeau rouge par le cardinal Alain de Coëtivy. Jean Balue (Angles-sur-l'Anglin, 1421 – Ripatransone, 5 ottobre 1491) è stato un cardinale e vescovo cattolico francese. Fu dapprima amico, sostenitore e uomo di fiducia del Re Luigi XI di Francia, per poi diventare, dopo uno spiacevole episodio, uno tra le persone più odiate dal sovrano. Jean Balue (c. 1421 – 5 October 1491) was a French cardinal and minister of Louis XI. Born without resources, he managed to climb the political ladder by exploiting connections, to whom he often did not remain loyal, and by making himself an indispensable agent of the king's purposes in a time of political disorder in France. His services were as much military as ecclesiastical, bringing him the critical task of defending the city of Paris against the King's enemies. His work as a diplomat in dealing with Duke Francis of Brittany and with Charles de France brought him the office of first minister to the King. Balue overreached himself in negotiating a treaty between the King and Charles the Bold, who had become Duke of Burgundy and was trying to recover all his family inheritance. Secret correspondence revealed that he might have been playing both sides in the negotiation, and he was arrested, and held on charges of treason from 1469 to 1481, while King and Pope argued over jurisdiction. After the death of King Louis and Pope Sixtus, the new French king, Charles VIII, appointed Balue his ambassador in Rome. |