Aimar or Aymar Hennequin (

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– 13 January 1596) was a French cleric and bishop.

Life

He was the third son of Dreux Hennequin († 1550), lord of Assy, president of the

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, and his wife Renée Nicolaï. He was elder brother to another bishop,

Jérôme Hennequin Jérôme Hennequin (1547 - 10 March 1619) was a French cleric and bishop. His elder brother Aymar Hennequin was also a bishop and they both supported the Catholic League. Life He was the sixth son of Renée Nicolaï and her husband Dreux Hennequi ...

. He became canon and clerk-counsellor to the

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before being made

Bishop of Rennes The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo''; br, Arc'heskopti Roazhon, Dol ha Sant-Maloù) is a dioces ...

on 3 July 1573. He was accused of being a member of the Catholic League and threatened with arrest, forcing him to flee Rennes in 1589. Louis, comte de Carné, ''Les États de Bretagne et l'administration de cette province jusqu'en 1789'', vol. 2, Didier, 1868, 411 p., p. 177 For four years he played a major role in the League's grand counsel in Paris, but without indulging either

Charles, Duke of Mayenne Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne (26 March 1554 – 3 October 1611), or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, followi ...

or the

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- of the Breton prelates, only Georges d'Arradon was involved with the foreign factions. After

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converted to Catholicism, Hennequin rushed back to his diocese and resumed his place in the

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. At its 1595 sitting he was president of the order of clergy. He was appointed

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 ...

and took the oath before the Parliament as a duke and peer of France on 2 April 1594, but he died in 1596 before taking possession of the archdiocese. Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, ''Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France, Au Bureau général de la noblesse de France'', 1821, p. 284-285

References

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