Roger

The Roger de Beaufort were a feudal family of the Limousin, lords of Maumont near Tulle, whose fortune was made by the Church. Pierre Roger, born in 1291, became Archbishop of Rouen and pope as Clement VI in 1342. During the Black Death of 1348 to 1350, he granted remission of sins to plague victims and condemned pogroms against Jews.

Clement made his brother Guillaume vicomte de Beaufort and in 1348 made his nephew Pierre Roger de Beaufort a cardinal. Elected Gregory XI in 1370, the nephew returned the papal court to Rome in 1377; his death in 1378 opened the Western Schism, healed at Constance in 1418.

Another nephew, Guillaume III Roger de Beaufort, received the vicomte of Turenne as a wedding gift in 1350. He served Queen Joanna of Naples in 1351 and ruled the Comtat Venaissin as papal rector from 1376.