ESTOUTEVILLE, GUILLAUME de. - Cardinal from a noble Norman family, b. c. 1403, d. in Rome on 22 January 1483. A Benedictine, after governing

(from M. Mollier, Le card. G. E., Paris 1861)

ESTOUTEVILLE, GUILLAUME de - Cardinal E. presents himself at the court of Charles VII as papal legate, miniature by Jean Chartier for the Chronicle of Charles VII (15th century).

various abbeys and bishoprics in France, he was elected cardinal on 18 December 1439. In August 1451 Nicholas V sent him as legate to France, to mediate peace between that kingdom and England and to seek to have the "Pragmatic Sanction" abolished, or at least mitigated: very difficult tasks which he was unable to carry to completion (cf. J.-P. Ourliac, in Mélanges d'archéol. et d'hist., 1938). He did, however, reform the University of Paris, removing its many abuses, and in Rouen he began the revision of the trial of Joan of Arc (1452).

Highly learned and esteemed, despite his worldly life, he put forward his candidacy in the conclaves of 1458 and 1464. Extremely wealthy through his many offices and many benefices, he occupied himself greatly and spent much on crusading enterprises and on public works: in France, especially at Rouen, of which he was bishop from 1433 until his death, and in Italy, especially in Rome, for the churches of S. Maria Maggiore and S. Agostino. The jewels with which his corpse was covered gave rise to disgusting scuffles. From a son of his, Girolamo, the house of the Tuttavilla took its origin.

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BIBL.: Two Eloges were written by M. Jullien and M. Roux de Laborie, Paris 1788; G. J. Eges, Supplementum novum purpuree doctor, Augusta e Grate 1720, pp. 180-91; F. Gabotto, Il padre di Gerolamo Tuttavilla, Turin 1899; G. de la Morandière, Hist. de la maison d'E. en Normandie, Paris 1903; M. Mollier, Le card. G. d'E. et le grand vicariat de Pentecôte, ibid. 1906; Pastor, I-II, see index (with rich bibl.); P. Paschini, Roma nel Rinascimento, Bologna [1940], see index; M. Armellini, Le chiese di Roma, I, Rome 1942, pp. 290 and 338; II, ibid. 1942, pp. 1357 and 1231. Renata Orsi Assarola

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