Editing Louis Aleman (section)

==Life==
Louis Aleman was born to nobles circa 1390 at the castle in [[Arbent]] to Jean Aleman and Marie de Châtillon de Michaille. His archbishop grand-uncle was François de Conzie (c.1356-31.12.1431/2).<ref name=CC/><ref name=SEB/>

He was present at the [[Council of Pisa]] in 1409. He studied [[canon law]] and graduated in that area with a doctorate in 1414 at [[University of Avignon|the college]] in [[Avignon]]. In 1417 he was made the abbot commendatario of Saint-Pierre de la Tour.<ref name=CC/>

Aleman served as the governor of the Romagna since 1424 and had to face the ongoing struggles between the [[Guelphs]] and the [[Ghibellines]] in [[Bologna]]. One of the Guelph families - the Canetols - even imprisoned Aleman for several weeks but Aleman was later released and moved to [[Rome]] to serve in the court of [[Pope Martin V]].<ref name=SEB/> Aleman served as a noted advisor to the pope and also served as a courtier while in the papal court.<ref name=SQPN/> He had served in the papal court for Martin V since July 1417.

On 22 June 1418 he was appointed as the [[Bishop of Maguelonne]] and he was installed into his new see on 17 May 1419. The pope himself granted [[episcopal consecration]] to Aleman in [[Mantua]].<ref name=CC/> He later became a diplomat to [[Siena]] in 1422. Aleman was later promoted as the newest [[Archbishop of Arles]] on 3 December 1423 and was installed in that see on 16 May 1424. Martin V named him a cardinal on 24 May 1426 as the [[Santa Cecilia in Trastevere|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia]] - he received that title on 27 May. From 1427 until 1431 he served as the [[Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals|Camerlengo]] for the [[College of Cardinals]].<ref name=SEB/> He served as a legate to Bologna from 1426 to 1428 and did not participate in the [[Papal conclave, 1431|conclave of 1431]].<ref name=CC/>

He was a prominent member of the [[Council of Basel]] since 1432 and together with Cardinal [[Julian Cesarini]] led the forces that maintained the power of the general councils over the pope's own control of the Church. It was while the council was proceeding that he tended to victims of the [[plague (disease)|plague]].<ref name=SQPN/> He later led opposition to the pope but Cesarini was reconciled with [[Pope Eugene IV]] and had a prominent part in the pope's convoked [[Council of Florence]]. In 1439 he led the effort to depose Eugene IV and the election of a successor. In 1440 he placed the tiara upon [[Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy|Antipope Felix V]] and consecrated him as a bishop. This was a misguided attempt at reforming the Church which Aleman believed was vital.<ref name=SQPN/> Eugene IV was responded to this and excommunicated the [[antipope]] while also depriving Aleman of all his ecclesiastical dignities. This also meant that Aleman could no longer be considered a cardinal and he was deprived of the dignities that came with the cardinalate. This occurred on 11 April 1440: he was stripped of Arles as his archdiocese and was stripped of his titular church.

Antipope Felix V made him the legate to the [[Diet of Frankfurt]] to the court of [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Friedrich III]]. He was further involved in the unsuccessful efforts to win over Europe's princes to Basel's antipope. In order to make an end of the [[Western Schism|schism]] the former cardinal advised Felix V to abdicate at which stage [[Pope Nicholas V]] restored the cardinal to all his honors and appointed him as a [[papal legate]] to the German kingdom] in 1449; his full restoration was on 19 December 1449.<ref name=SQPN/> He was granted back his titular church as well and from that moment until his death served as the [[Protopriest|Protopriest of the College of Cardinals]]. It was due to his estrangement to the Roman see that he was not permitted to participate in the [[Papal conclave, 1447|conclave of 1447]]. He returned to his former archdiocese where he dedicated himself with great zeal to the catechetical formation of the people.

He died on 16 September 1450 at the [[Order of Friars Minor|Franciscan]] [[convent]] in Salon at Arles. Aleman's remains are housed in Saint-Trophine d'Arles.<ref name=CC/>