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Guy first appears in contemporary records when he became the Archbishop of Vienne in 1088.

He held strong pro-Papal views about the Investiture Controversy.

As archbishop, he was appointed papal legate to France by Pope Paschal II during the time that Paschal was induced under pressure from Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to issue the Privilegium of 1111, by which he yielded much of the papal prerogatives that had been so forcefully claimed by Pope Gregory VII in the Gregorian Reforms.

Guy, with relatives both in Burgundy and the Franche-Comté ( that is, within the Emperor's jurisdiction and bordering it ) led the pro-Papal opposition at the synod called at the Lateran in 1112.

On his return to France, he immediately convened an assembly of French and Burgundian bishops at Vienne, where the imperial claim to a traditional lay investiture of the clergy was denounced as heretical and a sentence of excommunication was now pronounced against Henry V on the grounds that he had extorted the Privilegium from Paschal II by means of violence.

These decrees were sent to Paschal II with a request for a confirmation, which they received on 20 October 1112.