Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord

Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord was born at Périgueux in 1301, the third son of Count Elias VII of Périgord, and was destined for the Church. He became a leading cardinal of the Avignon papacy: at the 1334 conclave he headed the French cardinals resolved to keep the Curia in Avignon, against Napoleone Orsini's party demanding a return to Rome, and the election went to Benedict XII.

Cardinal-bishop of Albano from 1348 and a papal diplomat in the Hundred Years' War, he became dean of the College of Cardinals in 1361. After Innocent VI died in 1362, the cardinals split between Hélie and Guy of Boulogne and settled on an outsider, who became Urban V.

In 1363 Urban named Hélie legate for the crusade against the Turks planned by John II of France and Peter I of Cyprus. He died in January 1364, before it set out.