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Jean de Dormans, cardinal with the title of cardinal-priest of the Quatre-Saints-Couronnés (1368-1373), was chancellor and keeper of the seals under kings John II and Charles V.

Biography
Son of Jean de Dormans, a prosecutor in Parlement, himself a lawyer in Parlement, he rose by merit to the highest dignities of the State and the Church and was elected bishop of Lisieux on June 26, 1359. He was made bishop of Beauvais in 1360, then, during the consistory of September 22, 1368, Urban V gave him his cardinal's hat.

From 1369 to 1373, he was abbot of Saint-Pierre de Préaux.

In 1370, he founded the College of Beauvais in Paris, located on the rue Jean-de-Beauvais on the Sainte-Geneviève mountain; he named it in honor of the city of which he was bishop. Chancellor of Normandy, he was one of the representatives of the regent Charles at the Treaty of Bretigny on May 8, 1360. Chancellor of France from 1358 to 1359 and from 1361 to 1372, his brother Guillaume de Dormans succeeded him as Chancellor of France. Jean de Dormans died in Paris on November 7, 1373.