Jean-Allarmet de Brogny

Jean-Allarmet de Brogny (1342 – 16 February 1426) was a French Cardinal who presided over the Council of Constance.

Biography He was born in the hamlet of Brogny, now part of Annecy-le-Vieux in Savoy.

Biographers are not agreed as to his parentage and real name. According to some, he belonged to a peasant family of Brogny, called Allarmet; others say he was descended from the d'Alouzier, a noble house in Comtat Venaissin. It is certain, however, that the future cardinal was a swineherd, when two monks, struck by his open disposition and thoughtful answers, took him with them to Geneva, and procured for him an education which was completed at the University of Avignon. Despite the friendship and the inducement of Guillaume de Marcossey, Bishop of Geneva, young Allarmet retired to the Dijon Charterhouse, where his merits soon became widely known. When Robert of Geneva was elected pope by the faction hostile to Pope Urban VI, Allarmet joined him at Avignon, either having been sent by the Duke of Burgundy or called by Robert himself.

At Avignon favors were bestowed upon him in quick succession by the Avignon Pope Clement VII: the Bishopric of Viviers, in 1382, the dignity of Cardinal of Sant'Anastasia, in 1385,