Bertrand du Pouget

{{Short description|French papal diplomat and Cardinal}}

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Bertrand du Pouget ({{langx|it|Bertrando del Poggetto}}; {{circa|1280}}{{snd}}3 February 1352) was a French papal diplomat and Cardinal.

Bertrand was born in around 1280 in Castelnau-Montratier in the Lot department of south-western France.{{ cite journal | last=Jugie | first=Pierre | date=1991 | title=Un Quercynois à la cour pontificale d'Avignon : le cardinal Bertrand du Pouget (v. 1280-1352) | language=French | journal=Cahiers de Fanjeaux | volume=26 | pages=69–95 | doi=10.3406/cafan.1991.1519 | s2cid=254707362 | url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/cafan_0575-061x_1991_act_26_1_1519 }} He may have been a nephew of Pope John XXII.{{citation | editor1-last= Baluzius | editor1-first= Stephanus | editor1-link= Étienne Baluze | editor2-last=Mollat | editor2-first=G. | year=1927 | title= Vitae paparum avenionensium Volume 2 | publisher=Letouzer et Ané | place=Paris | page=221 [725] n. 2 |

url=https://archive.org/stream/vitaepaparumaven02balu#page/221/mode/1up | language=Latin, French }}, says that he was neither the son nor the nephew of Pope John XXII. 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.{{citation | title=Giotto and the arts in Bologna during the period of Bertrando del Poggetto | publisher=RAI Internazionale | url=http://www.italica.rai.it/scheda.php?scheda=giotto_bologna&hl=eng | accessdate=22 December 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927023415/http://www.italica.rai.it/scheda.php?scheda=giotto_bologna&hl=eng | archive-date=27 September 2012 | url-status=dead }}. He expelled Galeazzo I Visconti, imperial vicar for Emperor Henry VII, from Piacenza{{cite CE1913|wstitle= Diocese of Piacenza |volume= 12 |last1= Benigni |first1= Umberto |last2= Wemyss Brown |first2= Charles Francis |short=1}} and in 1329 arranged for a public burning of Dante's De monarchia.{{citation | last= Sørensen | first= Gert | year=2001 | contribution=The reception of the political Aristotle in the Late Middle Ages | editor-last=Pade | editor-first= Marianne | title= Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Copenhagen April 1998 | publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press | place= Copenhagen, Denmark | isbn=87-7289-585-3 | page=21 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_N0rKNXWHRwC&pg=PA21

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He was created cardinal priest of S. Marcello in 1316, and became bishop of Ostia in 1327.{{citation | last=Eubel | first= Konrad | authorlink= Konrad Eubel | year=1913 | title= Hierarchia catholica medii aevi (Volume 1) | publisher= Monasterii | place= Regensberg | language=Latin | pages=36, 43 | url= https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol01eubeuoft#page/36/mode/1up }} He participated in the conclave of 1334 that elected Pope Benedict XII and the conclave of 1342 that elected Pope Clement VI.{{citation | last= Miranda | first= Salvador | title= The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church | contribution= Bertrand du Pouget | url= http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1316.htm#Dupouget | publisher= Florida International University Libraries | accessdate= 16 December 2012 | archive-date= 15 October 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171015025159/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1316.htm#Dupouget | url-status= dead }} He died on 3 February 1352. His funeral was held in the church of the Cordeliers in Avignon and he was buried at the church of the Monastery of Clarisse de Saint-Marcel du Puget that he had founded.{{efn|The death date of 3 February 1352 is given in: {{citation | last1= Chacón | first1= Alfonso | authorlink1= Alphonsus Ciacconius | last2= Oldoino | first2= Agostino | authorlink2= Augustino Oldoini | year= 1677 | title= Vitae et res gestae Pontificum romanorum et S.R.E. Cardinalium ab initio nascentis ecclesiae usque ad Clementem IX P.O.M. (Volume 2) | publisher= Philippi et Ant. de Rubeis | place= Rome | language= Latin | at= col. 410 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=61owOT5B-LoC&pg=PA212 }}; {{citation | last= Eubel | first= Konrad | authorlink= Konrad Eubel | year= 1913 | title= Hierarchia catholica medii aevi (Volume 1) | publisher= Monasterii | place= Regensberg | language= Latin | pages= 15, 36, 43 | url= https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol01eubeuoft#page/15/mode/1up }}. Other dates have also been proposed: 1351 in {{citation | last=Cardella | first=Lorenzo | year=1793 | title=Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa | publisher=Stamperia Pagliarini | place=Rome | pages=104–107 | language=Italian | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iy0bjdpCguAC&pg=PA104 }}; 3 February 1351 in {{citation | last=Mas Latrie | first=Louis de | authorlink=Louis de Mas Latrie | year=1889 | title=Trésor de chronologie, d'histoire et de géographie pour l'étude et l'emploi des documents du moyen-âge | publisher=V. Palmé | place=Paris | at=col. 1154 | url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k255725q/f588.image }}; "end of 1348" in {{citation | last=Duchesne | first=François | year=1660 | title=Histoire de tous les cardinaux françois de naissance (Volume 1) | publisher=F. Duchesne | place=Paris | page=421 | language=French | url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k914067/f443.image }}.

For more details see Note 3 in: {{citation | last= Miranda | first= Salvador | title= The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church | contribution= Bertrand du Pouget | url= http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1316.htm#Dupouget | publisher= Florida International University Libraries | accessdate= 16 December 2012 | archive-date= 15 October 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171015025159/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1316.htm#Dupouget | url-status= dead }}.}}