Talk:Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet

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ANGENNES, CHARLES D', DE RAMBOUILLET, cardinal, second son of Jacques d'Angennes, seigneur de Rambouillet, and Isabeau Cottereau, dame de Maintenon, was born on the 31st October, 1530, and received an education suitable to his birth. In the midst of a corrupt court, D'Angennes led a life of purity, and possessed the esteem of his sovereigns, who employed him in several important affairs. Charles IX., at the request of Catherine de Médicis, appointed him to the bishoprie of Mans on the 22d of October, 1559. On the second day of the same month, in the following year, he made his entry into his episcopal city. While he was visiting his diocese, Mans was taken and pillaged by the Huguenots, 3d April, 1562, and the cathedral church of St. Julien suffered greatly at their hands. The Roman Catholic historians say that one Merlin, a convert to the Protestant faith, who had debauched a nun, brought over to his religious opinions a great number of his fellow-townsmen by the sermons which he delivered in the town-hall, and called in the Huguenots. But as the bishop was absent at the time of these disasters, he was suspected of having held secret intelligence with the Huguenot leaders, and he was even accused of receiving, as his share of the booty, the silver statues of the twelve apostles, which adorned the cathedral of Mans. These charges his biographers consider to be sufficiently rebutted by the liberality with which he repaired the injuries done to the church. D'Angennes was present at the last sitting of the council of Trent in 1563. Charles IX. sent him, in 1568, as ambassador of France to Pius V., and solicited for him the dignity of a cardinal. The pope made him cardinal priest, 17th May, 1570, with the title of St. Jerome (Sanctus Hieronymus Illyricorum), or, as others say, of St. Euphemia. It is probable that he had both these titles at different times. As cardinal, he subscribed the acts of a national council held at Tours in 1583, and was present at two conclaves held at Rome for the election of two popes, Gregory XIII. and Sixtus V. This last pope retained D'Angennes at Rome, and made him governor of Corneto, a place on the frontiers of Tuscany, where he died 23d March, 1587. It was suspected that he was poisoned by his domestics, to whom he had left the greater part of his property by his will, but the matter was never cleared up. He was buried in the church of the Fratres Minores of the order of St. Francis, and an epitaph was placed on his tomb, which states that he lived fifty-six years, four months, and twenty-three days. He was very charitable to the poor. Le Long, in his "Bibliothèque Historique de la France," tom. iii. No. 30124, 30125., gives these two manuscripts, 1. "Ambassade du Cardinal de Rambouillet à Rome, en 1568, fol., which is in the royal library of Paris. 2. “Dépêches de l'Ambassade de M. le Cardinal de Rambouillet à Rome, depuis le 19 Juillet, 1568, jusqu'au 28 Août, 1570," fol. 2 vols. (Courvaisier, Histoire des Evêques du Mans; Aubery, Vies des Cardinaux; Ciaconius, Vitæ et Res gestæ Pontificum Romanorum et Cardinalium.)

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