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Geoffroy de Madaillan d'Estissac, d. 30 May 1542, was a 16th century French cleric, friend and patron of Francois Rabelais, appointed bishop of Maillezais in 1518.
Biography
Geoffroy de Madaillan d'Estissac was the second son[1] of Jean de Madaillan d'Estissac[2] (c. 1425-19 July 1482), a favorite of Charles of France, brother of the French king Louis XI. In 1504, Louis XII named him prior in commendam of Ligugé Abbey. He completed its reconstruction, begun in 1479..
On 22 March 1518, François Ier named him bishop of Maillezais. he continued to live at Ligurgé, where the monastic community died out around 1520. Il accueille de nombreux lettrés de la région, tels Jean Bouchet, Eimery, Florent Thibaud et Mellin de Saint-Gelais.
In 1525 he hired as a personal secretary a monk fleeing the convent of Fontenay-le-Comte for having studied Greek, which the Sorbonne at the time considered heretical: François Rabelais, since it was he[3], in this position had access to Geoffroy's which at the time included some 80 books. He was thus able to satisfy his insatiable curiosity. Au cours de cette période (1525-1526), des liens d'amitié et d’estime se tissent entre les deux hommes malgré la différence de condition. Rabelais peut, grâce à l'influence de son protecteur, donner libre cours à sa fantaisie et à son génie créateur à l'abri de la vindicte de ses détracteurs.
Par la suite, Geoffroy d'Estissac bénéficie en retour de la clairvoyance de Rabelais qui lui fait part des nouveautés rencontrées au cours de ses voyages: for example, while he was physician to cardinal Jean du Bellay in Rome, he sent him lettuce seeds said to be the beginning of the lettuce growing in Poitou.
Geoffroy d'Estissac had the château de L'Hermenault built.
