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D'Amboise, detail of an engraving by an unknown artist
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Georges d’Amboise

French cardinal and minister of state
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Georges d’Amboise (born 1460, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France—died May 25, 1510, Lyon) was a cardinal and chief minister of the French state under King Louis XII, known for his domestic reforms and his role in Louis’s Italian campaigns. Son of Pierre d’Amboise, who was chamberlain to Charles VII and Louis XI and ambassador to Rome, Georges received the bishopric of Montauban when only 14, and was appointed an almoner of Louis XI. Later, under Charles VIII, he...

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