Wenilo (Ganelon): He participated in the Synod apud Carisiacum (palatium) of 858; the Council of Metz in 859; the Council of Tulle apud Saponarias (Savonnières) on 14 June 859; the Council of Aix on 9 January 860; the Council of Tulle apud Tusiacum (Teuzey) on 22 October 860; the Council of Pitres in 862; the Council of Soissons on 18 August 866; the Council of Troyes on 25 October 867; the Council of Quierzy on 5 December 868; and the Councils of Verberie (Vermerium palatium) and Pitres in 869. Jacques Sirmond, Concilia antiqua Galliae Tomus III (Paris 1629), p. 117 and 131, 144, 157, 162, 297 and 302, 358. Abbé Cochet, "Palace of Charles the Bald," The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review (1859), pp. 476–479 (on the palace at Pitres). Fisquet, pp. 46–47. Council of Verberie: J.-D. Mansi (ed.), Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, editio novissima, Tomus XVI (Venice 1771), p. 568.
Bishop Witton took part in the Assembly at the royal palace of Verberie (Vermieriense palatium) near Compiègne on 30 September 892: Édouard Favre (1893). Eudes, comte de Paris et roi de France, (882-898) (in French). Paris: É. Bouillon. p.145. He was also present at the Council of Trosley (Troslejanum) under the presidency of the Archbishop Hervé of Reims of 26 June 909. Mansi XVIII, p. 308. Fisquet, pp. 51–52.
Saulx-Tavannes was born in Paris in 1690, and became a Knight Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem in 1692. He was a Doctor in theology. He was Bishop of Chalons and Peer of France from 1721 to 1733, and was Grand Almoner of King Louis XV. He was nominated Archbishop of Rouen by King Louis XV on 28 August 1733, and preconized (approved) by Pope Clement XII on 18 December 1733. He was created a cardinal on 5 April 1756 by Pope Benedict XIV; he never visited Rome and never received a titular church. He died in Paris on 10 March 1759. Fisquet, pp. 265–268. Jean, pp. 340–341. Ritzler, V, p. 150 with note 5; VI, pp. 18 no. 56; 359 with note 2. Georges Clause, ed. (1989). Le Diocèse de Châlons (in French). Paris: Editions Beauchesne. pp.86, 105, 112. ISBN978-2-7010-1185-1.
Bonnechose: Julien Loth in: Société bibliographique (France) L'épiscopat français... pp. 543–544. Louis François Nicolas Besson (1887). Vie du cardinal de Bonnechose: archevêque de Rouen (in French). Vol.I. Paris: Retaux-Bray.
Dubois studied at the seminary in Le Mans, and became a priest of the diocese. In 1895 he was named an Honorary Canon of the Cathedral of Mans. In 1898–1901 he was Vicar-General of Le Mans. On 5 April 1901 he was nominated Bishop of Verdun by French President Emile Loubet, and he was preconized (approved) on 18 April 1901. He was consecrated on 2 July 1901. On 30 November 1909 he was named Archbishop of Bourges, and on 13 March 1916 Archbishop of Rouen. Dubois was named a cardinal by Pope Benedict XV on 4 December 1916, and on 13 December 1920 Archbishop of Paris. He was the leading opponent of L' action française in France, and a staunch ultramontane. He died in Paris on 23 September 1929.Martin Bräuer (2014). Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012 (in German). De Gruyter. p.238. ISBN978-3-11-026947-5.
Archbishop du Bois de La Villerabel was deposed in 1936 because of his long and vocal support for L'Action française: Eugen Joseph Weber (1996). The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s. NY: Norton. p.196. ISBN978-0-393-31479-3. Du Bois of Rouen is not to be confused with Du Bois of Aix, an ardent supporter of Marshal Pétain.
Bourbon was elected Coadjutor Archbishop of Rouen on 1 August 1583, but he never received episcopal consecration. He was named a cardinal on 12 December 1583 at the age of 21. He died on 30 July 1594. Salvador Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Bourbon de Vendome, Charles III de, retrieved: 2017-01-05.</
Petit was born in Dijon, and carried out his studies in the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. After ordination he studied in Rome from 1903 to 1905. From 1905 to 1910 he taught in the seminary of Issy in Paris. In 1927 he was named Bishop of Dijon, and on 29 September he was consecrated in Paris by Cardinal Dubois. On 7 August 1936 he was promoted Archbishop of Rouen, and on 18 February 1946 was named Cardinal priest by Pope Pius XII. He died on 10 December 1947. Bräuer, p. 307. Roger Brain (1948), Le Cardinal Petit de Julleville, (Paris: Centre de documentation sacerdotale, 1948). Salvador Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church,Petit de Julleville, retrieved: 2017-01-04.
René Herval, "Les origines chrétiennes de la Seconde Lyonnaise (Normandie actuelle)" in Études Normandes, 1963, n° 163, p. 1–11 (online reading in French) Archived 31 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine
René Herval, "Les origines chrétiennes de la Seconde Lyonnaise (Normandie actuelle)" in Études Normandes, 1963, n° 163, p. 1–11 (online reading in French) Archived 31 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine
