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Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord

1301–1364

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord was a French cardinal and influential churchman of the fourteenth century. His career placed him within the diplomacy of the Avignon papacy and the wider politics of France, England and the Hundred Years’ War.

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord also held the offices or ranks of Dean of the College of Cardinals, cardinal-bishop, bishop of Limoges, and Catholic archbishop. Other documented offices or ranks held by Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord include diocesan bishop and Roman Catholic Bishop of Auxerre.

In Maurice Druon’s The King without a Kingdom, Cardinal Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord recounts the reign of John II, whose hostility towards Charles of Navarre and dependence on a narrow circle of favourites deepen France's political divisions.

Periods

Periods linked to Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord

Hundred Years’ War1337–1453 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (1 series)

The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2(8,269)

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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