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canon of Le Léon, 5 July 1436 – 30 October 1437; • bishop of Avignon, 30 October 1437 – 1474, carrying out building works on the
Petit Palais at Avignon; • administrator of the
diocese of Uzès, 1442 to 1445; • named a cardinal
in pectore by
Pope Eugene IV, confirmed by
Pope Nicholas V in January 1447; • named a cardinal in the consistory of 20 December 1448 by
Pope Nicholas V; • assigned the
titular church of
Santa Prassede, 3 January 1449; • named bishop
Nîmes in commendam on 1 April 1454, by transfer of a cousin, Jean du Châtel, to
Carcassonne. The commission was revoked on 19 November 1460; • In the conclave of 4–8 April 1455, Coëtivy was opposed to the election of
Basilios Bessarion, for his Greek background and apparently incomplete conversion to Roman Catholicism. • On 8 September 1455, Cardinal Coëtivy was given the crusader's cross by
Pope Calixtus III personally, in a solemn ceremony in
St. Peter's Basilica. He was sent as a
pontifical legate to King
Charles VII of France, departing Rome on 17 September 1455. He was charged by
Pope Calixtus III with persuading Charles set out on the crusade against the Turks. He returned to Rome on 6 May 1458. • On 3 June 1455,
Pope Calixtus III canonized the
Dominican preacher
Vincent Ferrer. His remains, in the cathedral in
Vannes, Brittany, were inspected on 29 June 1455, and found to be "uncorrupted". Pope Calixtus sent Cardinal Alain as his legate to France; he departed Rome on 17 September 1455. He was in Vannes, to preside over the inauguration of the cult of the new saint, on 2–4 June 1456, in the presence of the cardinal and fifteen bishops. • made bishop-administrator of
Dol, 18 June 1456. He did not reside in Dol, but instead appointed the
Bishop of Alet, Anbroise de Camerato, as his coadjutor. He returned to Rome on 6 May 1458. He resigned on 7 January 1460, expecting to be replaced by Bishop Gabriel du Châtel of Uzès, but in 1462 the transfer was revoked and Coëtivy resumed the administration. • present at the
papal conclave of 1464, which elected
Pope Paul II; • as cardinal, made bishop of
Palestrina on 7 June 1465, then of
Sabina on 11 December 1472; • made (honorary?) abbot of the abbey of
Redon in 1468. He also held the benefices of the parish of
Marsac, which he resigned at the request of
Pierre II de Bretagne on 4 September 1451. It was he who helped establish the parish of
Saint-Yves-des-Bretons in
Rome.
Pope Nicholas V ceded Saint-André-de-Mortaraziis to the Breton nation, who reconsecrated it in honor of
saint Yves. He died in
Rome, at his palace at the
Campo de' Fiori, on 3 May 1474, at the age of 69. He was buried in Rome in his titular church. His monument at
Santa Prassede was executed by
Andrea Bregno. ==References==