Gérard de Vuippens was a Savoyard cleric and diplomat in England before going on to be Bishop of Lausanne.
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He was the son of Ulrich de Vuippens and Agnes de Grandson, sister of Otto de Grandsonhe was accordingly a nephew of the important friend and envoy of King Edward I of England. Moved to England to become firstly a sub deacon at the Benedictine Priory of St Leonard in Stamford, then a pastor at Greystoke, Cumbria. We know of his time at Greystoke from a gift, by Edward, of ten oak trees for timber recorded in the Calendar of Close Rolls.[1]
He went on to become a sub deacon in Richmond, North Yorkshire and Canon at York before taking on a key diplomatic role with King Edward I during the difficult negotiations with King Philip IV of France over Gascony.[2] He left England to become firstly Bishop of Lausanne from 1301 until 1309 when he moved on to become the Bishop of Basel until his death on 17 March 1325.[3]
References
edit- ^ Calendar of Close Rolls Edward I; Vol. 2 1279-1288, 312.
- ^ Mary C. L. Salt. 1929. "List of English Embassies to France, 1272-1307". The English Historical Review; 44: 263-78.
- ^ Jean Pierre Chapuisat. 1989. De Mont-sur-Rolle à Windsor, de la Dullive à Dumfries. . . . La Maison de Savoie et le Pays de Vaud 97: 118.