Simon de Langres [SEP] religious order
Simon de Langres
Simon de Langres was a French Dominican friar from Burgundy and Master General of the Dominican Order from 1352 to 1366.
From 1350 to 1352 was he was the Provincial of France. In 1360 he was made the Nuncio (Papal envoy) to France, and in 1363 to Hungary. On 16 March 1366, Simon was appointed Bishop of Nantes and resigned his position of Master of the Dominican Order. In 1382 he was transferred to the diocese of Vannes, but one year later resigned. On 7
the papal excommunications and interdicts had also taken their toll, isolating the rebel barons. The Church's prelates in Champagne aided Blanche at the order of Pope Innocent III, with the notable exception of William, bishop of Langres, who ignored papal orders to excommunicate his own brother Simon.
Blanche's forces ravaged the lands of her traitorous seneschal Simon de Joinville, and she imposed a humiliating surrender agreement: Simon's fortresses were seized, his eldest son Geoffroy was taken hostage, and Simon was forced to transfer his ancestral castle