Cardinal of Chatillon
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Cardinal Odet de Coligny |
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| Church |
Ss. Sergio e Bacco Sant'Adriano al Foro |
| Diocese | Archbishop of Toulouse (1534-1550) Administrator of Beauvais (1535-1563) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | never ordained Priest |
| Consecration | never consecrated Bishop |
| Created Cardinal | 7 November 1533 Cardinal de Châtillon by Pope Clement VII |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 July 1517 Châtillon-Coligny |
| Died | March 21, 1571 (aged 53) Canterbury, England |
| Buried | Canterbury Cathedral |
| Nationality | French |
| Parents |
Gaspard I de Coligny Louise de Montmorency |
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Odet de Coligny (10 July 1517 – 21 March 1571) was a French aristocrat, cardinal, Bishop-elect of Beauvais, Peer of France, and member of the French Royal Council. From 1534 he was usually referred to as the Cardinal of Châtillon. He was son of Gaspard I de Coligny and Louise de Montmorency, and brother of Pierre (1515-1534),Gaspard (1519-1572), and François, Seigneur d'Andelot (1521-1569).
His birth at Châtillon-Coligny on 10 July 1517, his parents' second son, was recorded in his mother's book of hours. He and his brothers were home schooled, under the direction of Nicolas Bérauld of Orleans, a friend of Erasmus.
He occupied high church offices during this initial part of his career. He became prior of Saint-Étienne in Beaume in 1530. On 10 October 1531 he was nominated by the King to be Abbot of St. Euvertius in Orleans, for which he obtained the necessary papal bulls on 13 April 1533; he resigned the benefice in 1537.
At the papal consistory of 7 November 1533 (at 16 and while still a layman) Odet de Coligny was created cardinal deacon, receiving the red hat and the titular church of Santi Sergio e Bacco three days later. Soon afterwards he became Abbot of the royal abbey of Nôtre-Dame de Vauluisant (1534-1553). In 1534 he became a Canon of La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
On 29 April 1534 Cardinal de Coligny's nomination to the metropolitan see of Toulouse by King Francis I was approved in Consistory by Pope Clement VII, despite his never having been ordained a priest. The Cardinal required a dispensation for the archbishopric, since he was only sixteen, far below the minimum canonical age. The dispensation was granted by Pope Clement on 28 August 1534. On 6 September 1534, Odet de Coligny was ordained Subdeacon, and on 13 September he was ordained Deacon.
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