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D'Amboise, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist
D'Amboise, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist

Georges d’Amboise

French cardinal and minister of state
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1460, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Died:
May 25, 1510, Lyon (aged 50)

Georges d’Amboise (born 1460, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France—died May 25, 1510, Lyon) was a cardinal and chief minister of the French state under King Louis XII, known for his domestic reforms and his role in Louis’s Italian campaigns. Son of Pierre d’Amboise, who was chamberlain to Charles VII and Louis XI and ambassador to Rome, Georges received the bishopric of Montauban when only 14, and was appointed an almoner of Louis XI. Later, under Charles VIII, he was imprisoned as a follower of the Duc d’Orléans, the future Louis XII. When the Duc d’Orléans was restored to favour, d’Amboise received the archbishoprics ...(100 of 255 words)

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