Côme Clausse de Marchaumont (ca. 1548 – 1 April 1624) was a

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Roman Catholic prelate. He was

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between 1574 and 1624.

Biography

Côme Clausse de Marchaumont was the fourth son of

Côme Clausse Côme (or Cosmo) Clausse lord Marchaumont (1530? – 1558) was a notary and secretary of the king, and was Secretary of State for King Henry II of France, from 1547 until his death in 1558. Biography He was the second son of John Clauss († 1504) ...

and Marie, the sister of bishop

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, after whom he became

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of Saint-Pierre-aux-Monts Abbey. In 1574, he succeeded his brother

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to the

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; Nicolas had inherited the title from their mother's brother. Clausse de Marchaumont was consecrated in 1575 by Nicolas Psaume, the bishop of Verdun. In the course of his half-century-long bishopric, he attended the coronation of Henry III in 1575 and of Louis XIII in 1610. He received Recollects and Jesuits in Châlons in 1613. On 28 April 1608 he became

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to his nephew

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, who was appointed titular bishop of

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in Maghreb (today in northern Algeria). Marchaumont died on 1 April 1624. His nephew succeeded him to the see of Châlons.

References

Bishops of Châlons-sur-Marne 16th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 17th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 1624 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{France-bishop-stub