Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.[1]
Louis III, Cardinal of Guise | |
|---|---|
| Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Reims |
| In office | 1605-1621 |
| Predecessor | Philippe du Bec |
| Successor | Gabriel Gifford |
| Other post(s) | Abbot of Cluny (1612-1621) |
| Previous post(s) | Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims (1601-1605) |
| Orders | |
| Created cardinal | 2 December 1615 by Pope Paul V |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 January 1575 |
| Died | 18 June 1621 (aged 46) Saintes |
| Coat of arms |  |
Life
editHis ecclesiastical post was entirely a sinecure; he was never ordained,[2] and led a dissipated life. Nevertheless, he was made Archbishop of Reims in January 1605,[3] and created cardinal on December 2, 1615. He incurred the displeasure of Louis XIII of France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1620.[2] He joined the royal campaign to besiege the Huguenot stronghold of Montauban in 1621, and there fell ill with scarlet fever and died.[4]
He married, in secret, Charlotte des Essarts,[2] Mademoiselle de La Haye in 1611. They had five children:
- Charles Louis (d. July 12, 1668, Auteuil), Abbot of Chaalis, Bishop of Condom[2]
- Achille (c. 1615–1648, Heraklion), Prince of Guise, Count of Romorantin, killed in the siege of Candia, married Anna Maria of Salm-Dhaun[5]
- Charlotte (d. bef. 1664), Abbess of St. Pierre, Lyon[5]
- Henri Hector (b. 1620)[3]
- Louise (d. July 5, 1662), married October 24, 1639 Claude Pot, Lord of Rhodes (d. August 3, 1642)[5]
Ancestry
editReferences
edit- ^ Bergin 1996, p. 661-662.
- ^ a b c d Bergin 1996, p. 662.
- ^ a b Carroll 2009, p. 294.
- ^ Kettering 2008, pp. 200–201.
- ^ a b c Spangler 2016, p. 272.
Sources
edit- Bergin, Joseph (1996). The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661. Yale University Press.
- Carroll, Stuart (2009). Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford University Press.
- Kettering, Sharon (2008). Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII: The Career of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578-1621). Manchester University Press.
- Spangler, Jonathan (2016). The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France. Routledge.
