Antoine de Croy

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Antoine de Croÿ (* 1465/70; † September 21, 1495 off the coast of Cyprus ) was Bishop of Thérouanne in Picardy .

biography

Antoine de Croÿ belonged to the noble family Croÿ . His parents were Philippe I. de Croÿ , Count of Porcéan , and Jacqueline of Luxembourg. From 1485 he was Bishop of Thérouanne . In 1495 he accompanied his cousin Count Palatine Alexander von Pfalz-Zweibrücken and his brother-in-law, Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The bishop accompanied the tour group from Padua from Venice to Jerusalem . With him came his secretary Philipp von Lobel, Canon of Thérouanne, and other servants. On the way back from Jerusalem he fell ill on September 10, 1495 and died on September 21, 1495 "not yet 30 years old" off the coast of Cyprus. That same night he was buried in front of the high altar in the church of St. Lazarus in Salamis .

literature

  • Sigmund Feyerabend (ed.): Reyßbuch des Heyligen Lands , Frankfurt a. Main 1584, fol. 30-47 . 1609, pp. 55-86.
  • Albert Ruppersberg (ed.): The journey of Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken to the Holy Land in 1495 and 1496 . In: Communications from the historical association for the Saar area 9, Saarbrücken 1909, pp. 37–140
  • Jürgen Karbach: The journey of Duke Alexander of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Count Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Saarbrücken to the Holy Land 1495/96 . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, vol. 45, Saarbrücken 1997, pp. 11–118, on Antoine de Croÿ pp. 41, 46, 69f., 83ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halm, German Travel Reports, No. 108, lacks the full names of the bishop and the secretary. M. Philips von Lobell, Thumbherr zu Theroanne appears in Feyerabend 1584, p. 39, Ruppersberg 1909, p. 89, Karbach 1997, p. 70
predecessor Office successor
Henri de Lorraine-Vaudémont Bishop of Thérouanne
1485–1495 		Philip of Luxembourg
personal data
SURNAME Croÿ, Antoine de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Croy, Antoine de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Thérouanne
DATE OF BIRTH around 1465
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1495
Place of death off the coast of Cyprus