Charles de Marillac
Charles de Marillac (* around 1510 in Riom , France , † December 21, 1560 in Melun , France) was a French cleric, politician and diplomat of the 16th century. He was Archbishop of Vienne and a member of the Conseil du Roi .
Life
Charles de Marillac came from a family in Basse-Auvergne and was the son of Guillaume II de Marillac, a secretary to Charles III. de Bourbon-Montpensier . He began his career as a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris. His negotiating skills ensured that he was appointed ambassador, first in Constantinople , later in London and finally with Charles V.
In 1555 he was part of the French legation that led the peace negotiations with England and the Holy Roman Empire in Marck near Calais . His two last commissions took him to Rome (1557) and to the Diet of Augsburg (1559). Because of his talent for conveying the French point of view to the princes of the Holy Roman Empire, he was appointed Bishop of Vannes in 1550 and Archbishop of Vienne in 1557 . He was also admitted to the Conseil du Roi. The construction of the Château de Denone in Effiat was commissioned by him.
During the reign of Francis II he showed himself to be an opponent of the religious policy of the Guise and praised a reform of the French church before a notable assembly in Fontainebleau in August 1560 . A little later he fell out of favor because he had called for the convening of the Estates General and criticized the policy of violence. At the age of 50 he died in the abbey of Saint-Père-lès-Melun.
family
Charles de Marillac was the son of Guillaume II de Marillac. Among his brothers were among others:
- Gabriel, public prosecutor in the Parlement of Paris († 1554).
- Bertrand, Franciscan (OFM) and vicar of his brother Charles. In 1566 he became Bishop of Rennes himself († 1576).
- Guillaume, surintendant des Finances , father of the later keeper of the seals of France , Michel de Marillac , and of the later Marshal of France , Jean-Louis de Marillac , and grandfather of Saint Louise de Marillac .
Marillac in fiction
In the fourth season of the TV series The Tudors , Charles de Marillac is played by Lothaire Bluteau .
Works
Works by Marillac include:
- Discours sur la rupture de la Trève en l'an 1556 (Paris, 1556)
- Sommaire de l'ambassade en Allemagne de feu Mr. l'archevesque de Vienne en l'an 1550, ed. in Ranke's German History in the Age of the Reformation , Vol. vi. (Leipzig, 1882).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marillac, Charles de . In: Hugh Chisholm (Ed.): Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 17 . Cambridge University Press, 1911, pp. 719 .
- ↑ De La Chesnaie-Desbois: Histoire de la noblesse . tape 9 . Paris 1775.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marillac, Charles de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cleric, politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riom |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1560 |
| Place of death | Melun |