Gabriel Bouvery
Gabriel Bouvery (died 1572) was a French
bishop of Angers, successor to Jean V Olivier
who died 12 April 1540.
Nomination and episcopacy
François I of France intervened with the chapter of Angers Cathedral, imposing the nomination of Bouvery. The king had taken the 1534 Affair of the Placards badly, as far as his attitude to toleration of Protestants went. Bouvery was the nephew of Guillaume Poyet, a courtier close to the king and son of Pierre Poyet who had been mayor of Angers. It was a political appointment aimed at royal control in the Catholic Church
, in a successor to the late Jean V Olivier.
In 1553 Bouvert consecrated the new church of Notre-Dame-des-Ardilliers in Saumur, founded by Olivier.[1] He worked to implement the decisions of the Council of Trent, which he attended.[2] Through his uncle, Bouvery became patron of Guillaume Postel; he was patron also of Jean Bodin.[3]
Role during the Wars of Religion
On the 1560 accession of
St Bartholomew's Day massacre of August; the governor Puygaillard of Anjou was then in Paris, but entrusted plans to attack Protestants in Saumur and Angers to Jean de Chambes, baron of Montsoreau
. De Chambes's violence was rebuked on 14 September by the king.
Notes
- ^ Richard, Charles Louis (1827). "Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique, canonique, géographique et chronologique des sciences ecclésiastiques".
- ^ Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Greenshields, Six Hundred Years of Reform: bishops and the French church, 1190-1789 (2005), p. 537; Google Books.
- ^ Marion L. Kuntz, Guillaume Postel: prophet of the restitution of all things: his life and thought (1981), p. 33; Google Books.
- ^ (in French) François Lebrun and Joseph Avril, Le Diocèse d'Angers (1981), p. 110; Google Books.
- ^ (in French) Lebrun and Avril, p. 112; Google Books
