Ladislas Jonart
{{Short description|French cleric, bishop, and archbishop}}
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| diocese = Cambrai
| see = Notre Dame de Cambrai
| elected = 1668
| enthroned = 4 April 1671
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| predecessor = Gaspard Nemius
| successor = Jacques-Théodore de Bryas
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| other_post = Bishop of Arras; Bishop of Saint-Omer
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| birth_date = 1594
| birth_place = Mons, County of Hainaut, Habsburg Netherlands
| death_date = 22 September 1674
| death_place = Cambrai, Cambrésis, Habsburg Netherlands
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Ladislas Jonart (1594–1674) was a clergyman from the Low Countries who was named in turn bishop of Arras, bishop of Saint-Omer, and archbishop of Cambrai. In the last position he was, ex officio, duke of Cambrai and count of Cambrésis.
Life
Jonart was born in Mons in 1594. He was ordained in Cambrai and held a canonry of the cathedral there.Émile Van Arenbergh, "Jonart (Ladislas)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, [https://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2051.pdf vol. 10] (Brussels, 1889), 505-506. He was elected dean on 3 December 1635 and went on to serve as vicar general of the diocese. During a mutiny of the garrison in the city, he personally advanced the money to pay the troops. In 1652 he was named bishop of Arras, but as the city was under French occupation he was never installed. In 1656 he was appointed to Saint-Omer instead, taking possession of the see by procuration on 20 September 1662 and being enthroned as bishop on 28 May 1663.Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Cambrai (Paris, Étienne Repos, 1864), pp. 278-279. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oql2vG7C91AC On Google Books]. In 1668 he was elected to succeed Gaspard Nemius as archbishop of Cambrai. He was only installed as archbishop on 4 April 1671, distributing the episcopal income that had accrued during the vacancy to the poor. He died on 22 September 1674, leaving his goods in trust to alleviate poverty in the city and to aid distressed bourgeois. He was buried in his cathedral.
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title=Bishop of Arras |
before=Jean-Pierre Camus |
after=Étienne Moreau |
years=nominated but never installed |}}
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title=Bishop of Saint-Omer |
before=Christophe de France |
after=Jacques-Théodore de Bryas |
years=1662–1671 |}}
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title=Archbishop of Cambrai |
before=Gaspard Nemius |
after=Jacques-Théodore de Bryas |
years=1671–1674 |}}
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Category:People from Mons, Belgium