Bertrand du Pouget

Bertrand du Pouget (Italian Bertrando del Poggetto) (1280–1352) was a French papal diplomat and Cardinal.
He may have been a nephew of Pope John XXII.G. Mollat: Vitae paparum avenionensium, vol. II, Paris 1928, p. 725, says that the statement about his relationship with John XXII resulted from an error As cardinal he was closely involved in dealing with the practical consequences of the migration of the papacy to Avignon, and also in striving to uphold papal prestige in Italy, for example by artistic commissions in Bologna.http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=art&scheda=giotto_bologna He expelled from Piacenza Galeazzo Visconti, imperial vicar for Emperor Henry VII,http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12069a.htm and in 1329 arranged for a public burning of Dante's De monarchia.Gert Sørensen, The Reception of the Political Aristotle, p. 21, in Marianne Pade (editor), Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Copenhagen 23-25 April 1998 (2001).
He was created cardinal priest of S. Marcello in 1316, and became bishop of Ostia in 1327.http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1316.htm#Dupouget.
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