Arnaud d'Ossat

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Arnaud d'Ossat (born July 20, 1537 in Larroque , † March 13, 1604 in Rome ) was a French cardinal , diplomat and Catholic bishop .

biography

Arnaud comes from a simple family (his father was a blacksmith) and, thanks to the help of a nobleman from his city, was able to study eloquence and philosophy in Auch , then in Paris under the guidance of the humanist Petrus Ramus . He continued his studies in Bourges , where he attended law lectures under the direction of the lawyer Jacques Cujas .

In Paris he met Paul de Foix-Carmain , later Archbishop of Toulouse , and entered his service in 1572. In 1574 he went to Rome with his new protector and in 1580, when Paul de Foix-Carmaing became ambassador of France in Rome, he became his secretary and later defended him against allegations of sympathy for the Calvinists . He stayed in Rome even after the ambassador's death in 1584 and then became secretary of the Cardinal Protectors of France, first to Luigi d'Este , then to François de Joyeuse . In 1588 he declined the appointment of King Henry III. to the Foreign Minister. He returned to France towards the end of the year after France and the Papal States severed diplomatic relations following the assassination of Cardinal Louis de Guise .

In 1589 he returned to Rome and stayed there to negotiate the peace between his country and the Papal States, which was concluded on September 19, 1595.

On September 9, 1596 he was made Bishop of Rennes and consecrated on October 27 of the same year in the Church of San Marco in Rome, where he remained as a French diplomat. He persuaded Pope Clement VIII to adopt a conciliatory policy towards the newly converted Henry IV of France, d. H. to annul his marriage to Margaret of Valois , to accept his alliance with the infidels of Turkey and England, and to postpone both the publication of the decrees of the Council of Trent in France and the restrictive measures taken by the monarch against the Jesuits , despite the Pope's request were not allowed into the kingdom.

In the consistory of March 3, 1599 he was appointed cardinal by Pope Clement VIII himself. On the following March 17th he became a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Eusebio .

On June 26, 1600, he was transferred to the Diocese of Bayeux . He died after a brief illness before he had completed negotiations on the transfer of the diocese to Jacques d'Angennes . He was buried in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.

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SURNAME Ossat, Arnaud d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardinal, bishop and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Larroque
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1604
Place of death Rome