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List Of French Peers
Twelve Peers They were probably, at the time of the old Frankish monarchy, the great princes and vassals who were called to appoint the successor of the king among the eligible princes to the crown. At the Capetian era, we find that the number is set at twelve, but all throughout the Old Regime, there were 173 fiefs which were erected in peerage. Six ecclesiastical peers The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims#Archbishops of Reims, archbishop-duke of Reims *47 holders: #1200-1202 William of the White Hands, Guillaume de Champagne (1135-1202) #1204-1206 Guy Paré (+1206) #1207-1218 Aubrey (archbishop of Reims), Albéric de Humbert de Hautvilliers (+1218) #1219-1226 William of Joinville, Guillaume de Joinville (+1226) (previously Langres) #1227-1240 Henri de Dreux (1193-1240) (previously Châlons) #1244-1249 Yves de Saint-Martin (+1249) #1249-1250 Juhel de Mathefelon (+1250) #1251-1263 Thomas de Beaumets (+1263) #1266-1270 Jean de Courtenay-Champignelles (1226-1270) #1274-1298 Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Reims
The Archdiocese of Reims (traditionally spelt "Rheims" in English) ( la, Archidiœcesis Remensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by St. Sixtus of Reims, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750. The archbishop received the title "primate of Gallia Belgica" in 1089. In 1023, Archbishop Ebles acquired the Countship of Reims, making him a prince-bishop; it became a duchy and a peerage between 1060 and 1170. The archdiocese comprises the ''arrondissement'' of Reims and the département of Ardennes while the province comprises the former ''région'' of Champagne-Ardenne. The suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Reims are Amiens; Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis; Châlons; Langres; Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin; and Troyes. The archepiscopal see is located in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, where the Kings of France we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles, Cardinal Of Lorraine
Charles de Lorraine (c. 1525 – 26 December 1574), Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1550). He was the protector of François Rabelais and Pierre de Ronsard and founded Reims University. He is sometimes known as the Cardinal de Lorraine. Biography Born in 1525, Joinville, Haute-Marne, Charles of Guise was the son of Claude, Duke of Guise and his wife Antoinette de Bourbon. His older brother was François, Duke of Guise. His sister Mary of Guise was wife of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was made Archbishop of Reims in 1538, (the day after the coronation of king Henry II of France, at which he had officiated). Cardinal In a political move to draw the France closer to the papacy, Pope Paul III consecrated Charles as cardinal in July 1547. He became coadj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Antoine De La Roche-Aymon
Charles Antoine, Count of La Roche-Aymon, born at Mainsat (Marche) on 17 February 1697 and died in Paris on 27 October 1777, was a French prelate, cardinal and grand aumônier de France. La Roche-Aymon was born in the diocese of Limoges in 1696, and had a doctorate in theology (Paris 1724). He was a Canon of Mâcon, and served as Vicar-General of Limoges. He had been titular Bishop of Sarepta and Auxiliary Bishop of Limoges (1725–1730), Bishop of Tarbes (1730–1740), Archbishop of Toulouse (1740–1752), and Archbishop of Narbonne (1752–1763). He was nominated Archbishop of Reims by King Louis XV on 5 December 1762, and was approved (preconized) on 24 January 1763 by Pope Clement XIII. He was created a cardinal on 16 December 1771 by Pope Clement XIV. A member of the assemblies of the clergy in 1735, 1740, 1745, and 1748, he presided over them from 1760. In 1770, Louis XV, the dean of the bishops of France in 1770, a courtier and a conciliator, appointed him minister of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Jules De Rohan-Guéméné
Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guémené (Paris, 10 February 1695 - Saverne, 28 August 1762) was a French ecclesiastic, Peer of France and the Archbishop of Reims. Early life Prince de Guemene was the fifteenth child of Charles III de Rohan, Prince of Guémene and Duke of Montbazon and his second wife, Charlotte-Elisabeth de Cochefilet (1657-1719), daughter of Charles de Cochefilet of Vauvineux and Françoise-Angélique d'Aubry. Career He was admitted early to the Chapter of the Cathedral of Strasbourg. He provided the abbeys of the Gard in the diocese of Amiens (1715), then of Gorge in that of Metz (1730). He became Archbishop of Reims on 2 June 1722, was confirmed on 6 July 1722 and made sacred on 23 August 1722. Gueme anointed Louis XV at his coronation in Reims on 25 October of the same year. Within his diocese, he exerted a great deal of activity to make the Unigenitus bull accepted but, having taken a seat in the Parliament of Paris as the first ecclesiastical peer, he gradually r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François De Mailly
François de Mailly (1658–1721) was a French archbishop and Cardinal. Biography Born at Nesle, he had ultramontane views, and was a stern opponent of Jansenism. He was a critic of Jean Meslier. On 11 May 1698, he was consecrated bishop by Toussaint de Forbin de Janson, Bishop of Beauvais, with Gabriel de Roquette, Bishop of Autun, and François Chevalier de Saulx, Bishop of Alès, serving as co-consecrators. He was Archbishop of Arles from 1697, then Archbishop of Reims The Archdiocese of Reims (traditionally spelt "Rheims" in English) ( la, Archidiœcesis Remensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese ... from 1710. Family His father was Louis-Charles de Nesle, marquis de Nesle. in French. References < ...
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Charles Maurice Le Tellier
Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1642 in Turin – 1710 in Reims) was a French Archbishop of Reims. The son of Michel Le Tellier and brother of François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, both ministers of Louis XIV, he studied for the Church, won a doctorate of theology at the Sorbonne and was ordained priest in 1666. Provided, even before his ordination, with several royal abbeys, he rapidly rose to the coadjutorship of Langres, then to that of Reims and became titular of that see at the age of twenty-nine. His administration was marked by zeal and success along the lines of popular education, training of clerics, parochial organization, restoration of ecclesiastical discipline and extirpation of Protestantism from the Sedan district. The importance of his see together with the royal favour brought him to the front in the affairs of the Church in France. As secretary of the '' Petite Assemblée'' of 1681, he reported for the king and against the pope on all disputed points: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Barberini
Antonio Barberini (5 August 1607 – 3 August 1671) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the Barberini, House of Barberini. As one of the cardinal-nephews of Pope Urban VIII and a supporter of Kingdom of France, France, he played a significant role at a number of the papal conclaves of the 17th century. With his brothers Cardinal Francesco Barberini (seniore), Francesco Barberini and Taddeo Barberini he helped to shape politics, religion, art and music of 17th century Italy. He is sometimes referred to as ''Antonio the Younger'' or ''Antonio Barberini iuniore'' to distinguish him from his uncle Antonio Marcello Barberini. Early life Barberini was born on 5 August 1607 in Rome, the youngest of 6 children to Carlo Barberini (1562-1630), Carlo Barberini and Costanza Magalotti (sister of Lorenzo Magalotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri II, Duke Of Nemours
Henri of Savoy (7 November 1625, Paris – 4 January 1659, Paris) was the seventh Duc de Nemours (1652–59), and was also Count of Geneva. Henri, as the third son of Henri de Savoie, 4th Duc de Nemours, was not expected to succeed to the dukedom and entered the priesthood. By 1651, he had become Archbishop of Reims. When his brothers Louis and Charles both predeceased him without leaving sons, he was relieved of his vows and became Duc de Nemours in 1652. He married Marie d'Orleans (daughter of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and Louise de Bourbon Louise de Bourbon (2 February 1603 – 9 September 1637) called ''Mademoiselle de Soissons'' was the wife of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. She was the mother of the famous Marie de Nemours. Life The eldest daughter of Charles de ...) in 1657, but died two years later without children. On his death, the title of Duke of Nemours reverted to the Crown. He was succeeded as Count of Geneva by his niece, Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonore D'Étampes De Valençay
Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay (6 February 1589, Château de Valençay – 8 April 1651, Paris) was Bishop of Chartres from June 1620 to November 1641, and Archbishop of Reims from 1641 until his death in 1651.The Pontifical France, Chartres, Paris, rest publishers, 1872, p. 186-190. 186-190. He was the brother of Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay, Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, and Jean d'Étampes de Valençay. See also * List of bishops of Chartres The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the ... References Bishops of Chartres Archbishops of Reims 17th-century peers of France 1589 births 1651 deaths 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France {{France-RC-archbishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry II, Duke Of Guise
Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise (4 April 1614, in Paris – 2 June 1664, in Paris) was a French aristocrat and archbishop, the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse. Life At the age of fifteen, he became archbishop of Rheims. According to Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, he had a well known affair with the actress Marguerite Béguin during this time period.Scott, Virginia (2010). Women on the stage in early modern France : 1540-1750''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . The death of his eldest brother Francis in 1639 placed him in the dukedom the following year. He opposed Richelieu, and conspired with the count of Soissons, fighting in the Battle of La Marfée in 1641. For this, he was condemned to death, but fled to Brussels in 1641. His property was seized by the king in 1641, for crime of lèse-majesté. Reprieved, he returned in 1643 and his confiscated property was returned to him. Hoping to make good his family's ancient pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Gifford
Gabriel Gifford OSB (also known as Dom Gabriel of St Mary or french: Gabriel de Sainte-Marie) (1554 – 11 April 1629) was an English Roman Catholic Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Reims. Life Born William Gifford in Hampshire to John Gifford, Esq., of Weston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Throckmorton, Knight of Coughton, Warwickshire,Wood 1815 he was sent to Oxford in 1569, where he was entrusted to the care of John Bridgewater, President of Lincoln College, who was a Catholic at heart. Gifford remained at Oxford for about four years, part of which time he spent in the celebrated boarding school kept by the Catholic physician, Dr Etheridge, where he had been placed on the compulsory retirement of Bridgewater for refusal to conform. After that period, Gifford, accompanied by his tutor, proceeded to the Catholic University of Louvain (1573), resumed there his studies, and took the degree of Master of Arts. After havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis III, Cardinal Of Guise
Louis de Lorraine known as the ''Cardinal de Guise'' (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves. Life His ecclesiastical post was entirely a sinecure; he was never ordained, and led a dissipated life. Nevertheless, he was made Archbishop of Reims in January 1605, and created Cardinal (Catholic), cardinal on December 2, 1615. He incurred the displeasure of Louis XIII of France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1620. He joined the royal campaign to besiege the Huguenot stronghold of Montauban in 1621, and there fell ill with scarlet fever and died. He married, in secret, Charlotte des Essarts, ''Mademoiselle de La Haye'' in 1611. They had five children: # Charles Louis (d. July 12, 1668, Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy, Auteuil), Abbot of Chaalis, Bishop of Condom # Achille (c. 1615–1648, Heraklion), Prince of Guise, Count of Romorantin, killed in the siege of Candia, married Anna Maria of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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