Pierre Duchâtel [Du Chastel, Castellanus, or Pierre Castellan], was born in
Arc-en-Barrois around 1480, and was
chaplain to King François I from 1537. He was also a scholar,
bishop of Tulle (1544), of
Mâcon (1549) and of
Orléans (1551). He became also Master of the King's Bookshop, director of the Royal College (now
Collège de France) and in 1548 was appointed
Grand Almoner of France.[2]
^.Histoire ecclésiastique de la cour de France, où l'on trouve tout ce qui concerne l'histoire de la Chapelle, & des principaux officiers ecclésiastiques de nos rois [archive], 1777, Imprimerie royale.
Paris.
^R.P. Charles-Louis Richard et Giraud Bibliothèque sacrée ou Dictionnaire universel, historique, dogmatique, canonique, géographique et chronologique des sciences ecclésiastiques, Paris 1827 tome XXIX, p. 16