François Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to Margaret of Parma. He was Bishop of Arras from 1561 to 1574.
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He was an Augustinian Hermit, and became titular bishop of Nicopolis in 1554.
He preached the sermon at the funeral of the Emperor Charles V,[1] and at the inauguration in 1562 of the University of Douai he was one of the preachers[2]
Publications
edit- Quatre sermons du sacrement de l'autel (Leuven, Jan Bogard, 1567) Available on Google Books
References
edit- Léon Duflot (1897), Un orateur du 16e siècle: François Richardot évêque d'Arras
Notes
edit- ^ Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique, p. 300; Théodore Juste (1860), Histoire de la révolution des Pays Bas sous Philippe II, p. 111.
- ^ PDF[permanent dead link], in French.