Alain de Coëtivy, French cardinal (died 1474)

Alain de Coëtivy

French prelate

Alain (II) de Coëtivy was a prelate from a Breton noble family. He was bishop of Avignon, Nîmes and of Dol, cardinal of the titular church of Santa Prassede, then cardinal-bishop of Palestrina and cardinal-bishop of Sabina. Sources often refer to him as the Cardinal of Avignon,…