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 Hennequin († 1550), lord of Assy, president of the

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. He was initially a canon of

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and was made

bishop of Soissons The Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Ch ...

in 1587. He was consecrated bishop by cardinal

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in Rome. He took part in the League's Estates General in Paris in 1593. In 1610 he ceded to de Joyeuse the privilege of crowning the queen of France

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. In 1612 he gained permission for his nephew Dreux Hennequin de Villenoxe († 1651) to be made

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with right of succession and in 1618 he resigned the commendatory of abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay in his favour (he had inherited it on Aymar's death in 1596). When Jérôme died in 1619, however, Dreux renounced these titles in favour of his cousin

Charles de Hacqueville Charles de Hacqueville ( 1572, Ons-en-Bray – 27 February 1623, Paris) was a French cleric and bishop. Life His family originated in Artois and moved to Paris in the mid 16th century. He was the son of André , lord of Ons-en-Bray, Master of Req ...

, another of Jérôme's nephews via his mother Anne Hennequin, who had Charles confirmed as bishop by

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on 12 August 1619.Joseph Bergin, ''The Making of French Episcopate (1589-1661)'', Yale University Press, 1996 , p. 638

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hennequin, Jerome Bishops of Soissons 1547 births 1619 deaths