About Jacques de Dinant
Lived 1280 – 1300. Jacques de Dinant was a French catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Jacques de Dinant was a medieval Bishop of Arras, France.
He was appointed bishop by Pope Innocent IV on 4 October 1247, and he resigned as bishop in 1259. He was also a considerable scholar of the 13th century. He was educated in Northern France or Holland and in the latter part of his life taught at the University of Bologna in the department of Rhetoric.
His works include: Summa Dictaminis Breviloquium Ars Arengandi Sex formulae dictaminis Exordia in linea clericali and Exordia in linea seculari.
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Who was Jacques de Dinant?
medieval French bishop and writer
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Jacques de Dinant was born in 1280.
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Jacques de Dinant died in 1300.
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Jacques de Dinant was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Jacques de Dinant was French.
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