Aymon de Montfalcon was born in 1443. Descended from a branch of an old Savoyard family, he was the son of Guillaume de Montfalcon and Marguerite de Chevron-Villette. A Doctor of
Canon Law, he became a
Benedictine monk at
Saint-Rambert in the Bugey region. Close to the
Dukes of Savoy, he served as advisor to Amadeus IX of Savoy, and later to
Philibert I. Between 1495 and 1510, he served eight times as the ambassador of
Savoy to the
Swiss Confederates. Aymon was appointed Bishop of Lausanne on May 16, 1491, by
Pope Innocent VIII. He became commendatory prior of
Port-Valais in 1492 and of
Lutry in 1495. From 1497 to 1509, he served as administrator of the Diocese of Geneva on behalf of the underage
Philippe of Savoy. In 1493, he organized a
diocesan synod in Lausanne, and in 1497, he founded the
Carmelite convent of Sainte-Catherine du Jorat in Lausanne and the
Franciscan convent in
Morges. In 1508, Pope
Julius II appointed him as apostolic investigating judge in the
Jetzer affair. ==References==