Er war seit mehreren Jahren Glöckner von Notre-Dame, Dank seinem Pflegevater Claude Frollo, welcher Archidiaconus von Josas durch seinen Oberlehnsherrn Louis von Beaumont geworden war, der dagegen 1472, nach Wilhelm Chartiers Tode, durch Vermittlung seines Gönners Olivier Le-Daim, des Barbiers König Ludwigs des Elften von Gottes Gnaden, Bischof von Paris geworden war.
He had become a few years previously the bellringer of Notre−Dame, thanks to his father by adoption, Claude Frollo,−−who had become archdeacon of Josas, thanks to his suzerain, Messire Louis de Beaumont,−−who had become Bishop of Paris, at the death of Guillaume Chartier in 1472, thanks to his patron, Olivier Le Daim, barber to Louis XI., king by the grace of God.