Hugh (archbishop of Vienne)

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Hugh (died 1155) was a Carthusian monk who served as the bishop of Grenoble from 1132 until 1148 and then as the archbishop of Vienne from 1148 until 1153, when he retired to his old . As bishop of Grenoble, he was Hugh II, succeeding a fellow Carthusian, Hugh of Châteauneuf.[1] His episcopate at Grenoble was marked by conflict with Count Guigues IV of Albon.[2] At Vienne, he provoked displeasure from the Cluniacs and Cistercians.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Giles Constable, ed., The Letters of Peter the Venerable, vol. 2 (Harvard University Press, 1967), pp. 202–03.
  2. ^ Aurélien Le Coq, "La trajectoire des Guigues d'Albon: Réseaux et lieux de pouvoir, Xe–XIIe siècle", Florilegium 29 (2012): 201–27, at 214.


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