Miles (or Milon) de Dormans (c. 1343 – 17 August 1387) was a French prelate, bishop and Chancellor of France in 1380.[1][2]

Tomb of Miles de Dormans, chancellor of France, and his brother Guillaume de Dormans, archbishop of Sens, in the Collège de Beauvais in Paris

Biography

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He was the son of Guillaume de Dormans, Chancellor of France, a nephew of Cardinal Jean de Dormans and the brother of Guillaume de Dormans, the Archbishop of Sens (1343-1387).

While he was professor utrius juris (civil law and canon law) at the University of Orléans,[3] he was appointed bishop of Angers in 1371. He was then appointed bishop of Bayeux on 16 June 1374 and subsequently bishop of Beauvais on 31 January 1375.[4]

He was appointed Chancellor of France on 1 October 1380.

He died on 17 August 1387.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne: ou histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Nog - Paj, Volume 31, 1860
  2. ^ Fabien Roucole, Prélats et hommes de guerre dans la France du XVe siècle. Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, coll. "Le temps de l'histoire", 2020, 307 p. (ISBN 9791032002551) (online version)
  3. ^ R.C. Famiglietti, Audouin Chauveron, Provost of Paris, Providence, R.I., USA, Picardy Press, 2015, p. 35
  4. ^ Catholic Hierarchy: Bishop Milon des Dormans
  5. ^ Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913): Hierarchia catholica, vol. 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana (in Latin), vol I, pp. 88, 125, 132