Guillaume de ChanacGuglielmo de Chanac. (died December 30, 1383) was a French Benedictine who became a Cardinal.From 1371
He was abbot at Bèze Abbey, and then was abbot at Saint-Florent from 1354 to 1368., . He was Bishop of Chartres and then Bishop of Mende, for brief periods up to 1371.
He supported the Collège de Chanac Pompadour in Paris,Famille Chanac named after his great-uncle of the same name.
Biography He was born in Paris on an unknown date, but most certainly in the early 1320s. The son of Guy de Chanac, a knight from Limousin originally from Allassac, and Isabeau, known as Belotte de Montbron, he was the grandnephew of Guillaume V de Chanac, Bishop of Paris (1333–1342) and Latin Patriarch of Alexandria (1342–1348), and the nephew of Foulques de Chanac, Bishop of Paris (1342–1349). One of his nephews, Bertrand de Chanac, would become a cardinal from 1385 to 1401.
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External links Biography Epitaph, old dictionary page with short biography