Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (8 February 1593, in
Angoulême – 28 September 1639, in
Rivoli) was a
Roman Catholic
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cardinal and lieutenant general in the French Army.
Louis was the third son of
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554–1642), created Duke of Épernon, was a powerful member of the French nobility at the turn of the 17th century. He was deeply involved in plots and politics throughout his life.
Life
He was born at C ...
(1554–1642) and Marguerite de Foix-Candale.
As early as age 6, he received the abbey of
Grandselve. In 1611, he left this abbey to
François de Joyeuse
François de Joyeuse (24 June 1562 – 23 August 1615) was a French churchman and politician.
Biography
Born at Carcassonne, François de Joyeuse was the second son of Guillaume de Joyeuse and Marie Eléanor de Batarnay. As the younger son of a ...
and became
Archbishop of Toulouse in his place. He also became
Grand Almoner of France {{other uses, Almoner
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of King
Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
.
In 1621, Pope
Paul V made him
cardinal-deacon
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of
Sant'Adriano al Foro
Sant'Adriano al Foro was a church in Rome, formerly in the Curia Julia in the '' Forum Romanum'' and a cardinal-deaconry (a titular church for a Cardinal-deacon).
The church
The Church of Sant'Adriano al Foro (Italian for St. (H)Adrian at ...
.
Louis also was the commander of an army in the
Thirty Years' War
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, commanding a French detachment alongside the army of
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in the summer of 1635. Together, they took
Bingen, lifted the Sieges of
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.
Name
The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...
and Mainz, and withdrew the army from Mainz back to Lorraine after desertion sapped it of two-thirds of its men.
[Wilson 2011, p. 562.]
''Cardinal de La Valette'' served in the war under
Cardinal Richelieu, which earned him the nickname of ''cardinal valet'' (''servant cardinal'').
Notes
References
*Wilson, Peter H. (2011). ''The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy'', Harvard University Press.
External links
''Louis de Nogaret de La Valette''by S. Miranda (
Florida International University
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, last updated September 2012)
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1593 births
1639 deaths
17th-century French cardinals
Archbishops of Toulouse
People from Angoulême
French people of the Thirty Years' War