Guillaume de Farges

{{Short description|French cleric}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Raymond Guillaume de Farges''' (or '''Fargues''' or '''Fargis''') ([[Fargues, Gironde]], unknown date - Toulouse, 5 October 1346) was a 14th-century [[France|French]] [[priest]] and Cardinal.<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref> A nephew of [[Pope Clement V]], he was [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref> from 1310 until his death in 1346.

==Biography== Raymond Guilhem de Fargues was the son of Bérenger Guillaume de Fargues (Fargis) and Assalide (alias Jeanne, Marquèze) de Got, a sister of [[Pope Clement V]]. He was also a cousin of Cardinal Raymond de Got.

In 1308, he became canon and treasurer of the [[Beauvais Cathedral]]. From 29 August 1308, he was a canon in Lincoln at the [[prebend]] of [[Ketton]], succeeding his brother Bernard de Fargues, who had become [[Bishop of Agen]] On 13 October 1310, he was invested with the [[Archdeaconry of Leicester]] in the church of Lincoln. He was also [[Dean of Salisbury]] (1311–1346), [[Archdeacon of Sarum]] from 1312, and Canon of [[Bayeux]] (around 1313) and [[Mende, Lozère|Mende]] in the [[Gévaudan]].{{fact|date=August 2025}}

He was created a cardinal by Pope Clement V in the consistory of 19 December 1310, although he had only minor orders, and received the titular church of [[Santa Francesca Romana]] as [[Cardinal deacon]]. Cardinal de Fargues participated in the conclaves of [[1314–1316 papal conclave|1314–1316]] (election of John XXII), [[1334 papal conclave|1334]] (election of Benedict XII), and [[1342 papal conclave|1342]] (election of Clement VI), the latter of whom he crowned as [[Cardinal Protodeacon]].<ref>[https://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdesforge.html Catholic Hierarchy]</ref>

In Avignon, the Cardinal resided in the Livrée de Florence on the northern part of today's Place Pie.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

== Notes == {{Reflist}}

==See also== * [[Diocese of Lincoln]] * [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Diocese of Peterborough]] * [[Diocese of Leicester]] * [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]

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