François de Dinteville [SEP] position held
François de Dinteville
François de Dinteville (1498–1530) was a French Catholic bishop.
After a legal training in Pavia as doctor of both laws, he became bishop of Sisteron in 1506. He was bishop of Auxerre from 1513 to his death.
His successor was another François de Dinteville, his nephew, who had been Bishop of Riez from 1527 to 1530. Dinteville the Younger held the diocese of Auxerre until his death on 27 September 1556.
External links.
- Biography
Jean de Dinteville
Jean de Dinteville (1504–1555) was a French diplomat. He is the left-hand figure in Holbein's 1533 painting "The Ambassadors", painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned. Dinteville's motto was "Memento mori", meaning "Remember thou shalt die."
External links.
- oneonta.edu
See also.
- François de Dinteville (1498-1530), his brother