BRISSELOT (BRYSELOT, BRIXELOTUS, BRISSELOTTO, BRISELOTTO), JEAN. - Carmelite of Flanders, born at Valenciennes, where he took the religious habit; having obtained a degree in theology at Paris (1502), he later became professor at the Sorbonne and prior of the convent of Valenciennes. Appointed titular bishop of Beiruth and auxiliary of Cambrai (4 Apr. 1505), he administered this diocese until 1517, the year in which he became confessor to Carlo V and was appointed archbishop of Oristano (Sardinia), a see which he never reached. Admired for his vast learning, he was called by Erasmus «unum e luminaribus Ecclesiae». Having resigned as archbishop (16 Apr. 1520), he died in the abbey of Hautmont on 11 Sept. 1520. He left about twenty manuscript works, including one on the Psalmos poenitentiales.
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