Editing Jean du Bellay (section)

===Death===
Cardinal Jean du Bellay died in Rome on 16 February 1560 at 13:30 hours, Rome time, in his gardens at the Baths of Diocletian.  He was buried in the Church of Santissima [[Trinità dei Monti]].<ref>Gulik and Eubel, p. 24, note 3.</ref> Since he had died in Rome, the appointment to his vacated benefices, according to the Concordat of Bologna of 1516, belonged to the Pope, not to the King.  [[Pope Pius IV]] reminded Henry II of this in a letter of 9 August 1560.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Evennett |first1=Henry Outram |title=Pie IV et les bénéfices de Jean Du Bellay |journal=Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France |year=1936 |volume=22 |issue= 97 |pages=425–461 |doi=10.3406/rhef.1936.2780}}</ref> This was one of the principal reasons that French kings did not want their very richly beneficed cardinals to reside in Rome; as a result, when a Conclave became necessary, either the French party did not arrive in time, or did not bother to come at all.  Since they were unknown to most of the cardinals, they were rarely serious candidates for the papal office.

Du Bellay's Last Will and Testament was contested, and his relatives fought over various parts of the inheritance.  The Cardinal's sister Louise, who had received the Cardinal's property still kept in the Episcopal Palace in Paris, to ensure her claim to the inheritance, made a donation of the Cardinal's antiquities to the Queen Mother, Catherine de' Medicis.<ref>{{cite book |author=Richard Cooper |title=Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7s_sCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT152 |year=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-1-317-06186-1 |pages=152 ff}}</ref>