François Richardot

François Richardot

François Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to Margaret of Parma. He was Bishop of Arras from 1561-1574.

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

Quatre sermons du sacrement de l'autel (Leuven, Jean Bogard, 1567) Available on Google Books

References

Léon Duflot (1897), Un orateur du 16e siècle: François Richardot évêque d'Arras

Notes

↑ 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, in French.

External links

Works by François Richardot at Post-Reformation Digital Library

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[1] 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.

[2] PDF, in French.