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Salvador Miranda, the source, is the only person I know of who believes that Altemps was Legate in Avignon (He gets his information from Lorenzo Cardella). Everyone else believes that it was Charles de Borbon-Vendome (who became 'king of France' after the assassination of Henri III). Even Miranda admits this elsewhere, in his notes on Cardinal Georges d'Armagnac, where he writes that Georges (of the famous phrase, 'Let George do it') "Royal governor in Languedoc, where he fought the propagation of the Huguenots. Invited by Cardinal de Charles de Bourbon-Vandôme, legate in Avignon, he was his co-legate from 1565 until his death." Georges died in 1585. Gallia Christiana I (Paris 1715), pp. 843-846, knows nothing about Altemps as Legate of Avignon, but does know about Cardinal Charles de Bourbon. The reason for the statement about Altemps is probably that he was a Cardinal Nephew, and Cardinal Nephews usually became Legate of Avignon, appointing a Vice-Legate. But Georges d'Armagnac was co_Legate (Vice-Legate) for Charles de Bourbon-Vendome.
