François Richardot

François Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to Margaret of Parma. He was Bishop of Arras from 1561 to 1574.

François Richardot

He was an Augustinian Hermit, and became titular bishop of Nicopolis in 1554.

He preached the sermon at the funeral of the Emperor Charles V,[1] and at the inauguration in 1562 of the University of Douai he was one of the preachers[2]

Publications
gollark: Well, it's actually particularly relevant for me today, since a blog I follow, SlateStarCodex, is (temporarily? I hope) shut down because a news reporter is apparently planning to release the author's real-world name in an article about it, i.e. very literal doxxing, despite said blog author saying that they did not want this.
gollark: Eh. I think it's better than the alternative.
gollark: When people decide to violate that by identifying you in the real world, that is problematic.
gollark: One of the good things about the internet is the ability to have pseudonyms and not be connected to your real-world identity, which allows (some amount of) safety and helps allow freedom of thought.
gollark: And this is probably some weird semantic argument and/or ethical thing more than something you can "logically prove" either way.

References
  • Léon Duflot (1897), Un orateur du 16e siècle: François Richardot évêque d'Arras

Notes
  1. Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique, p. 300; Théodore Juste (1860), Histoire de la révolution des Pays Bas sous Philippe II, p. 111.
  2. PDF, in French.
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