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: Thank you.
gollark: It should work. This is inexcusable. If this continues I may be forced to do a neck transplant.
gollark: Also, this spare phone keeps running out of RAM and Discord keeps using 12-hour time somehow.
gollark: Mostly fine, although for some odd reason my neck hurts slightly if I turn it left.
gollark: What if everyone is clones of Oscar after plastic surgery?

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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