Louis de Villars

He was Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul and was the son of Humbert IV, sire of Thoire and Villars, and an unknown mother, possibly Beatrice of Burgundy.

[1] In 1303 he established the Carmelites in Lyon and in 1304 he authorized the founding of the Abbaye de la Déserte.

He was the subject of the papal bull Ausculta Fili by Boniface VIII ( an ally), addressed to Philip the Fair.

Pope Clement V intervened to bring the King of France and the archbishop of Lyon to a treaty, in 1307.

Philip the Fair issued two edicts known as the Philippines, the second of which left a grievance between the cathedral chapter and the archbishop.