Hélias de Saint-Yrieix
French bishop
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Hélias de Saint-Yrieix (died 1367) was a French Benedictine abbot, papal judiciary official, bishop and Cardinal.
Life
Hélias was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, south of Limoges (Poitou). He had a nephew, John of S. Aredio (Yrieix).[1] He was also a consanguineus of Bernard de Castris, papal marshal of the Romandiola.[2]
Cardella states that he was a Doctor of Canon Law.[3] He was abbot of Saint Maixent from c. 1329 to 1335. He was appointed abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur, Saumur by Pope Benedict XII, on 13 June 1335.[4] He held the position of Auditor literarum contradictarum in the papal chancery in Avignon.[5]
Bishop
On 5 September 1344, he was appointed bishop of Uzès by Pope Innocent VI.[6] In November 1351, he took part in a provincial council[7] held by Pierre de la Jugié, Archbishop of Narbonne, in Beziers.[8] On 1 September 1351, he and the bishop of Carpentras were appointed to investigate the claims of potential sainthood of Elzearius de Sabrano.[9]
Cardinal
He was created cardinal priest of Stefano al Monte Celio by Pope Innocent VI in the consistory of 23 December 1356. Around 3 April 1363, Cardinal Hélias of S. Stefano was granted the Provostship of the cathedral of Mainz.[10]
Shortly after 10 May 1363, he was promoted suburbicarian bishop of Ostia by Pope Urban V.[11] In 1357, he was one of several cardinal-judges in the case of Richardus Armachanus,[12] (Richard Fitz Ralph, Archbishop of Armagh).[13] The pope also appointed him a judge in the lawsuit between the cathedral Chapter of Paris and the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of S. Benoît.[14]
On, or shortly before, 4 March 1365, Bishop Hélias of Ostia resigned the benefice of Prior of the Benedictine church of Ispaniaco (diocese of Mende).[15] On 28 February 1366, Pope Urban V (1362–1370) granted him the Provostship of Wydoy, near Limburg in the diocese of Liège.[16]
Upon his death, 10 May 1367, he was buried in the cathedral of S. Marie de Domps in Avignon.[17]
