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Catholic cardinal (1575–1621)
Louis III, Cardinal of Guise
Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseReims
In office1605-1621
PredecessorPhilippe du Bec
SuccessorGabriel Gifford
Other post(s)Abbot of Cluny (1612-1621)
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims (1601-1605)
Orders
Created cardinal2 December 1615
by Pope Paul V
Personal details
Born22 January 1575
Lorraine
Died18 June 1621 (aged 46)
Saintes
Coat of arms's coat of arms

Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, 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 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:

  1. Charles Louis (d. July 12, 1668, Auteuil), Abbot of Chaalis, Bishop of Condom
  2. Achille (c. 1615–1648, Heraklion), Prince of Guise, Count of Romorantin, killed in the siege of Candia, married Anna Maria of Salm-Dhaun
  3. Charlotte (d. bef. 1664), Abbess of St. Pierre, Lyon
  4. Henri Hector (b. 1620)
  5. Louise (d. July 5, 1662), married October 24, 1639 Claude Pot, Lord of Rhodes (d. August 3, 1642)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louis III, Cardinal of Guise
16. René de Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine
8. Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise
17. Philippa of Guelders
4. Francis de Lorraine, Duke of Guise
18. François de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme
9. Antoinette de Bourbon
19. Marie de Luxembourg
2. Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Guise
20. Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
10. Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
21. Lucrezia Borgia
5. Anna d'Este
22. Louis XII of France
11. Princess Renée of France
23. Anne of Brittany
1. Louis de Lorraine
24. Engelbert, Count of Nevers
12. Charles de Cleves, Count of Nevers
25. Charlotte de Bourbon
6. François of Clèves, Duke of Nevers
26. Jean d'Albret, Baron d'Orval
13. Marie d'Albret, Countess of Rethel
27. Charlotte de Bourgogne
great grand daughter of Philip the Bold
3. Catherine of Cleves
28. François de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme =18
14. Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme
29. Marie de Luxembourg =19
7. Marguerite de Bourbon
30. René d'Alençon, Duke of Alençon
15. Françoise d'Alençon
31. Marguerite de Lorraine

References

  1. Bergin 1996, p. 661-662.
  2. ^ Bergin 1996, p. 662.
  3. ^ Carroll 2009, p. 294.
  4. Kettering 2008, pp. 200–201.
  5. ^ Spangler 2016, p. 272.

Sources

  • Bergin, Joseph (1996). The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661. Yale University Press.
  • Carroll, Stuart (2009). Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford University Press.
  • Kettering, Sharon (2008). Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII: The Career of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578-1621). Manchester University Press.
  • Spangler, Jonathan (2016). The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France. Routledge.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded byPhilippe du Bec Archbishop of Reims
1605–1621 		Succeeded byGabriel de Sainte-Marie
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