Antoine Sanguin de Meudon

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Cardinal Sanguin, drawing by Léon Gaucherel, engraving by Ernest Boetzel, 19th century, based on the “Book of Hours of Cardinal Sanguin”, Italy, 16th century, Firmin Didot collection

Antoine Sanguin de Meudon , dit Cardinal de Meudon (* 1493 in Picardy , † November 25, 1559 in Paris ), was Grand Almosenier of King Francis I , Archbishop of Toulouse and Cardinal .

Life

Antoine Sanguin was the second son of Antoine Sanguin († 1500), Seigneur de Meudon , La Honville, Lunesy etc., Maître des eaux et forêts de France , Champagne et Brie , and Marie Simon. He was the uncle of Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly , the mistress of Franz I. His father declared him of age shortly before he died himself. He became a canon in Champeaux , but his career only got going after his niece had become the king's mistress.

Francis I appointed him Bishop of Orléans , the approval of Pope Clement VII took place on November 6, 1533. Shortly afterwards he became Maître de l'Oratoire . In 1535 Antoine Sanguin became Commendatarabbot of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire , he held the task until 1543. In 1537 he became abbot of Vézélay .

In the consistory of December 19, 1539 Pope Paul III appointed. He received him cardinal , the cardinal purple at Easter 1540 in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral from the hands of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese , the papal legate in France. Since 1541 he was called Cardinal de Meudon , he received the titular church Santa Maria in Portico Octaviae on July 15, 1541.

On August 7, 1543 the king made him Grand Almosenier of France, in the same year he became the first Commendatabab of Les Vaux-de-Cernay . On April 16, 1544 he was Lieutenant-général du roi à Paris , d. H. Deputy of François de Montmorency as governor of Paris (an office that a brother Jean Sanguin , Seigneur de Meudon, had already exercised ten years earlier) - in the summer of the same year, the attacks of Emperor Charles V on the country fell Cardinal then belonged to the French delegation that negotiated the Peace of Crépy . Also in 1544 he was appointed Bishop of Limoges .

When his niece fell out of favor after the death of Francis I on March 31, 1547, he suffered the same fate. He gave up the office of Grand Almosenier, the office of Deputy Governor of Paris will now have ended, and he retired to Italy: on December 20, 1547, Antoine Sanguin visited the Roman Curia for the first time ; on December 22, he was appointed by Pope Paul III receive. Also in 1547 he was appointed cardinal priest of San Crisogono .

He took part in the conclave 1549–1550 (November 29 to February 7), which ended with the election of Julius III. ended. Also in 1550 Antoine Sanguin was rehabilitated and returned to France; He gave up his office as Bishop of Orléans and Bishop of Limoges, in 1551 he exchanged the Abbey of Saint-Benôit with Odet de Coligny , Cardinal de Châtillon , for the Archdiocese of Toulouse , the appointment by King Henry II took place on October 20 - Pope Julius III gave his approval. only three years later, on October 22, 1553. He took part in the conclave of April 1555 ( April 5–9 ), which ended with the election of Marcellus II , but not in the conclave of May 1555 (15 –23 May), and also not at the conclave of 1559 (5 September - 25 December).

Construction and Heritage

The wealthy Parisian citizen Guillaume Sanguin, great-grandfather of Antoine Sanguin, bought the Meudon fief in 1426. The associated manor was demolished in 1520 by order of Antoine Sanguins to build a new castle, which he gave to his niece Anne de Pisseleu in 1527. With a treaty dated June 2, 1540, he also bequeathed her the reigns of Meudon, Angervilliers and Bures , which his brother Jean († 1539/40) had left him shortly before.

Around 1545 he acquired the "Hôtel d'Évreux", which had belonged to Cardinal Jean de La Balue , Bishop of Évreux . From 1550 the new "Hôtel de Meudon" was built here, which was only completed by Cardinal René de Birague , and is now known as the Hôtel de Chavigny (Rue de Sévigné 9).

Antoine Sanguin had a son, Richard Sanguin, from an unknown woman, but nothing more is known about him. He died in Paris on November 25, 1559 and was buried in the convent of Sainte-Catherine-du-Val-des-Écoliers .

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France - Généalogie des Sanguin , 3rd edition, Volume 8, 1733, pp. 263-266
  • Jean Lebeuf, Histoire Du Diocese De Paris: Contenant la suite des Paroisses du Doyenné de Châteaufort , Volume 8, Paris, Prault, 1757
  • Jean-Aimar Piganiol de La Force, Description historique de la Ville de Paris et ses environs , 1765
  • Lorenzo Cardella, Memorie storiche de cardinali della Santa romana chiesa ... , Rome, Pagliarini, 1793, pp. 221f
  • François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , 3rd edition, Volume 18, 1873, p. 256
  • Emmanuel-Henri de Grouchy, Meudon, Belleville et Chaville , Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France. 20: 51-206, 1893, pp. 61ff
  • Guilelmus van Gulik, Konrad Eubel , Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg (eds.), Hierarchia catholica medii aevi , Volume 3, Münster 1923
  • Valentine Weiss, Hôtel de Guillaume Sanguin , in: La Demeure médiévale à Paris , répertoire sélectif des principaux hôtels, Paris, Archives nationales, 2012, pp. 145f

Web links

  • The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Antoine Sanguin ( online , accessed April 22, 2020)
  • Étienne Pattou, Familles Sanguin de Livry & de Meudon ( online , accessed April 22, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Anne de Pisseleu was the daughter of Guillaume de Pisseleu and Anne Sanguin, the cardinal's older sister
  2. ↑ a b Voyage de Champeaux à Meaux, fait en 1785 , Abbé Henry Goudemetz, 1892, Chapter Notice historique sur Champeaux , pp. 139–164
  3. ^ Louis Archon, Histoire De La Chapelle Des Rois De France , Volume 2, Paris, Clerc, 1711, pp. 519f, 529
  4. ↑ Franz I (and Anne de Pisseleu too) extremely dissatisfied that the appointment had not already been made at the consistory of December 20, 1538
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Babelon, Nouvelle Histoire de Paris - Paris au XVIe siècle , Diffusion Hachette, 1986, p. 525ff Gouverneurs et Lieutenants-généraux de Paris et d'Île-de-France
  6. ^ Jean-Claude Garret, La rue des Francs-Bourgeois au Marais, Paris, Délégation à 'action artistique de la Ville de Paris, October 1992, p. 47, ISBN 978-2-905118-43-1
personal data
SURNAME Sanguin de Meudon, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardinal de Meudon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal, Archbishop of Toulouse
DATE OF BIRTH 1493
PLACE OF BIRTH Picardy
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1559
Place of death Paris