Jean-Allarmet de Brogny

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.

[1] Robert's successor, Peter of Luna, who called himself Benedict XIII, sanctioned all these preferments and even promoted Allarmet from Viviers to Bishop of Ostia-Velletri, one of the suburbicarian dioceses, in 1405.

The Metropolitan See of Arles having become vacant, he disregarded the candidate elected by the Arlesian chapter and in 1410 appointed Cardinal de Brogny perpetual administrator of that see.

[1][2] This appointment was intended as a means of recovering the rights of the Church of Arles usurped by the Counts of Provence during the confusion consequent on the schism.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, he could have secured the election for himself, had he so desired; but he threw the weight of his influence in favor of Colonna, who took the name of Pope Martin V. He died at Rome in 1426.

In his old age de Brogny asked to be translated from Ostia to Geneva,[1][2] but only his remains reached the beloved place of his youth; they were laid to rest in the chapel of the Maccabees which had been added to the old cathedral by the cardinal himself.