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Louis III, Cardinal of Guise

Catholic cardinal (1575–1621)

Louis III, Cardinal of Guise
Cardinal, Archbishop of Reims

Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Reims
In office	1605-1621
Predecessor	Philippe du Bec
Successor	Gabriel Gifford
Other post(s)	Abbot of Cluny (1612-1621)
Orders
Created cardinal	2 December 1615 by Pope Paul V
Personal details
Born	22 January 1575 Lorraine
Died	18 June 1621 (aged 46) Saintes
Previous post(s)	Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims (1601-1605)
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.^[1]

Life

His ecclesiastical post was entirely a sinecure; he was never ordained,^[2] and led a dissipated life. Nevertheless, he was made Archbishop of Reims in January 1605,^[3] and created cardinal on December 2, 1615. He incurred the displeasure of Louis XIII of France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1620.^[2] He joined the royal campaign to besiege the Huguenot stronghold of Montauban in 1621, and there fell ill with scarlet fever and died.^[4]

He married, in secret, Charlotte des Essarts,^[2] Mademoiselle de La Haye in 1611. They had five children:

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^[5]
Charlotte (d. bef. 1664), Abbess of St. Pierre, Lyon^[5]
Henri Hector (b. 1620)^[3]
Louise (d. July 5, 1662), married October 24, 1639 Claude Pot, Lord of Rhodes (d. August 3, 1642)^[5]

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

^ Bergin 1996, p. 661-662.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bergin 1996, p. 662.
^ ^a ^b Carroll 2009, p. 294.
^ Kettering 2008, pp. 200–201.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.