Editing Jean Balue (section)

===Rome===
From that time Cardinal Balue lived in high favour at the court of [[Rome]]. King Louis XI died on 30 August 1483, thereby closing a chapter of struggle over Balue's status. In 1484 Balue was sent to [[France]] as Legate ''a latere'', by Pope Sixtus IV, but he was not received there as such.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joannes Burchard|editor=Louis Thuasne|title=Diarum, siue rerum urbanarum commentarii: 1483-1506|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNMDUhGaiDIC|volume=Tome premier|year=1883|publisher=Ernest Leroux|location=Paris|language=French, Latin|page=138}}</ref> He did visit his diocese of Angers, and was solemnly received on 24 July 1484. He made a solemn entry into Paris on 20 August 1484.<ref>Breguet, p. 162.</ref> He returned to Rome on 8 February 1485.<ref>Eubel, II, p. 48, no. 511.</ref>

Pope Sixtus IV had died on 12 August 1484, while Balue was in Angers. He did not participate in the Conclave that elected [[Pope Innocent VIII]] on 29 August.<ref>J. P. Adams, [http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1484.html ''Sede Vacante 1484'']; retrieved: 2017-10-16.</ref>

In February 1485 Cardinal Balue was named French ambassador to the Court of Rome and Protector of France by King Charles VIII. He and Cardinal della Rovere were to work to bring Innocent VIII over to the French side, and to favor the French claim, in the person of [[René of Anjou]], to the Kingdom of Naples. On 5 March 1486, arguments in Consistory between Cardinal Balue and Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, a relative and supporter of Ferdinand of Naples, grew so heated that Pope Innocent had to silence them both. Envoys of Charles VIII and René reached Rome in May 1486, prepared to conclude negotiations, but the diplomacy of Ferdinand of Aragon, the operations of the condottiere Broccolino Guzzoli, and the appearance of Turkish ships in the Adriatic, put a stop to the French adventure.<ref>Ludwig von Pastor, ''The History of the Popes, from the close of the Middle Ages'', third edition, [https://archive.org/details/historyofpopesf05past Volume V] Saint Louis: B. Herder 1902, p. 260-263.</ref>

In 1485, following the wishes of [[Pope Innocent VIII]], Cardinal Balue instituted the Feast of the Visitation in the diocese of Angers, to which, however, he never returned.<ref>Breguet, p. 165.</ref>

On 14 March 1491, Cardinal Balue was promoted Bishop of Palestrina.<ref>Eubel, II, p. 49, no. 536.</ref>

He died at Ripatransone, a village fifty-six miles south of [[Ancona]], where he was serving as Rector of the Marches of Ancona, on 5 October 1491.<ref>Breguet, p. 163.</ref> His funeral took place in Rome on 18 October, and he was buried in the chapel he had built in Santa Prassede. The Pope was his heir since the Cardinal had left no Last Will and Testament, and the rumor reported by Joannes Burchard, the Master of Ceremonies, was that he was worth some 100,000 ducats.<ref>Burchard, ''Diarium'' Volume I (ed. Thuasne), p. 422-431.</ref>

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