Jean de Comines
Jean de Comines, first count-bishop of Puy, was born towards 1230. Second wire of the lord Baudouin de Comines and his wife Agnes d' Aigremont, it belongs to the one of the more noble big families of the Comté of Flanders which will leave later the chronicler Philippe de Comines. Named with the évêché of the Puy in April 1296 by the pope Boniface VIII, it makes its entry in this city later only one year, on August 25th 1297. It is an important political character, " specialist in the illegal means to defend the capacity légal" , belonging to the Council of the king de France Philippe IV Beautiful the which it assists in the business of the Templier S. It yields to the king half of the rights of évêché on the city of Puy (paréage) and the rights feudal that the church of Puy had on the county of Bigorre (1307). He dies close to Poitiers in 1308 and will be buried in the church of the convent of Cordeliers in Puy.
Source: - François Widemann, " Jean de Comines, first count-bishop of Puy" in: Books of the Haute-Loire, 2001, p. 87 to 95 (with photographs of seals). site: http://www.cahiersdelahauteloire.fr
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