Background
Pierre de Colombier was born at Colombier in Ardeche. He was nephew and namesake of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand of Annonay.
Pierre de Colombier was born at Colombier in Ardeche. He was nephew and namesake of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand of Annonay.
Pierre de Colombier became juristic education.
Created cardinal priest of St Susanna in 1344, Pierre de Colombier was employed by the pope on important missions, notably to negotiate peace or an armistice between France and England.
Having become bishop of Ostia in 1353, he was sent next year to Charles IV of Germany, and induced him to come to Italy to be crowned emperor at Rome, 1355.
In 1356 he went to France to try to arrange a peace with England, and died in 1361 at the priory of Montaud near Avignon. See A. Mazon, Essai historique sur I'etat du Vivarais pendant la guerre de cent ans (Paris, 1889), with references there.