Ailly, PIERRE D' (or Petrus de Alliaco), theologian and Nominalist philosopher, was born in 1350. Chancellor of the university of Paris, and Bishop of Compiègne, he was made cardinal in 1411, and a papal legate in Germany. He took a chief part in the Council of Constance, where he headed the reform party, but agreed to the sentence on Huss and Jerome of Prague. He died at Avignon in 1419.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 108–109
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