Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (born 1493)

Jean du Bellay

16th-century French Catholic cardinal (1492–1560)

Jean du Bellay was a French diplomat and cardinal, a younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and cousin and patron of the poet Joachim du Bellay. He was bishop of Bayonne by 1526, a member of the Conseil privé of King Francis I from 1530, and bishop of Paris from 1532. He became…