Quémadeuc was a Breton, the son of Thomas, Governor of Ploemel. Doctor of theology (Paris, 1664) and cousin of Mme de Sévigné. He became Aumonier to Anne of Austria and Abbot commendatory of St-Jean-des-Près. He was named Bishop of Saint-Malo on 31 October 1670 by King Louis XIV. He was approved by Pope Clement X on 4 May 1671. Guy-Alexis Lobineau (1839). Vies des saints de Bretagne (in French). Paris: Méquignon Junior. pp. 243–245. Ritzler, V, p. 252, with note 2.
Mailly was the second son of Louis-Charles, Marquis de Nesle. His younger brother François was a Cardinal (1719–1721) and was Archbishop of Arles (1698–1710) and Archbishop of Reims (1710–1721). Victor-Augustin was a Canon Regular and Prior of St.-Victor de Paris. He took part in the Assembly of the Clergy in 1688. His bulls were granted on 13 October 1692, having been delayed since his nomination in 1687 by the diplomatic rupture between Louis XIV and Pope Innocent XI. He was consecrated on 16 November 1692 in Paris. Armand Jean (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 (in French). Paris: A. Picard. p. 403. Gallia christiana XIII, p. 352.
Birague, a native of Milan but a naturalized Frenchman, was Chancellor of France (1573–1583). He had been married, but after his wife's death he entered the Church. It is claimed that his name appears as Bishop in "les manuscrites de Lavaur," but Crozes places Birague in 1577, then stating that he resigned in favor of his nephew. Hippolyte Crozes (1865). Monographie de l'ancienne cathédrale de Saint-Alain de Lavaur (Tarn) ... (in French). Toulouse: A. Chauvin. pp. 50, note 1. Eubel, III does not list René de Birague.
Le Sauvage was born in Granville, in Lower Normandy, in the diocese of Coutances, the son of a lieutenant in the admiralty courts. He was orphaned, and sent to live in Paris with an uncle who was a priest at Saint-Séverin. He was Master of theology and Socius of the Sorbonne, and Abbot commendatory of the monastery of S. Pierre de Belloloco in the diocese of Limoges. Joseph Bergin (2004). Crown, Church, and Episcopate Under Louis XIV. Yale University Press. pp. 84–85. ISBN978-0-300-10356-4. Ritzler, V, p. 406, with note 4.
Georges de Selve was third son of Jean de Selve, First President of the Parlement de Paris. He was tonsured in the diocese of Rouen, and became a Protonotary Apostolic. Georges was not yet eighteen when named Bishop of Lavaur by King Francis I. His predecessor, Pierre de Buxi, was a relative of Georges' mother. Robert J. Kalas (1987). "The Selve Family of Limousin: Members of a New Elite in Early Modern France". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 18 (2): 147–172, at 162-163. doi:10.2307/2541174. JSTOR2541174. Compayré, p. 467. Georges de Selve was one of the "Ambassadors" of Hans Holbein's famous picture.
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Georges de Selve was third son of Jean de Selve, First President of the Parlement de Paris. He was tonsured in the diocese of Rouen, and became a Protonotary Apostolic. Georges was not yet eighteen when named Bishop of Lavaur by King Francis I. His predecessor, Pierre de Buxi, was a relative of Georges' mother. Robert J. Kalas (1987). "The Selve Family of Limousin: Members of a New Elite in Early Modern France". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 18 (2): 147–172, at 162-163. doi:10.2307/2541174. JSTOR2541174. Compayré, p. 467. Georges de Selve was one of the "Ambassadors" of Hans Holbein's famous picture.