Savoy, wrote in reply demanding that they sent representatives to present their documents showing the grant of their privilege of election, and at the same time inviting them to submit their votes for Jean le Veneur. They submitted their bulls, and received in return a letter from the King, expressing his desire that they choose Jean le Veneur. It took a second royal letter, ordering the monks to elect Le Veneur and no other, for the business to be accomplished. In 1539, Cardinal le Veneur resigned the Abbey into the hands of Pope Paul III, recommending that the Pope appoint as his successor his friend and cousin Jacques d'Annebault. The Bull authorizing the transfer was dated 18 August 1539. On 10 May 1517, the Bishop of Lisieux was present at the Coronation of Claude of Brittany as Queen of France in the royal Abbey of S. Denis by Cardinal Philippe de Luxembourg. She had been married to King Francis I on 18 May 1514. On 4 March 1525 Bishop Le Veneur was named Lieutenant-General of the government of Normandie, by the King's brother-in-law Charles, Duc d'Alençon, the Governor of the province. This was a time of national disaster. King Francis had lost the Battle of Pavia on 24 February, and many French nobles had been killed or captured. The King had been carried off as a prisoner to Madrid. Probably in 1530, Jean Le Veneur followed his brother Ambroise as Abbot Commendatory of Notre-Dame de Lyre in the Diocese of Évreux. He held the abbey until ca. 1535, when he was succeeded by his grand-nephew Gabriel Le Veneur. Le Veneur also became Count of Tillières. As Grand Almoner of France (from 1526), he was involved in many church and government projects. He also introduced Jacques Cartier to king Francis I in May 1532, before Cartier's first expedition to Canada. This brought some problems with Portugal, which interpreted Pope Alexander VI's bull of 1493 as excluding anyone but Castile and Portugal from exploration in the New World. In October 1533, during the visit of Pope Clement VII to Marseille for the marriage of Catherine de' Medici to Henri, Jean Le Veneur discussed the matter with the Pope and persuaded him that the bull applied only to those areas already discovered, not to undiscovered territories. This cleared the way for Cartier's project. That expedition set sail on 20 April 1534. Cardinal Le