Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portrait of Cardinal d'Auvergne, Anonymous after Hyacinthe Rigaud , 18th century, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Dijon)

Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne called l'Abbé d'Auvergne , then le Cardinal d'Auvergne (born November 5, 1671 in Barcy , † April 22, 1747 in Paris) was a French cleric; he was successively Archbishop of Tours (1719-1721), then Archbishop of Vienne (1721-1745) and from 1737 cardinal .

biography

Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne was the eleventh of 13 children of Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne , Comte d'Auvergne et d' Olliergues , Marquis de Lanquais , and Franziska von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1642–1698), Margravine von Bergen-op-Zoom , and earmarked for a career in the Church. He completed his training at the Sorbonne , where he graduated as a Docteur ès Théologie in May 1695 .

In 1684 he became a canon at the Strasbourg Cathedral and later at the Lambertus Cathedral in Liège . From 1692 to 1740 he was abbot of Saint-Sauveur in Redon , from 1694 of Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches. He was vicar general of his uncle Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne as Abbot of Cluny , Tournus and Saint-Martin in Pontoise ; on April 22, 1697 he became coadjutor in Cluny when his uncle was sent to Rome as envoy, and after his death in 1715 he became abbot himself. Also in 1697 he became Grand Bailiff ( Grand Prévôt ) at the Strasbourg Cathedral.

He only became bishop at the age of 58: at the end of 1719, Pope Clement XI appointed him . as Archbishop of Tours (he stayed away from the archbishopric, however, he was not consecrated), in 1721 by Pope Innocent XIII. as Archbishop of Vienne - the election in Vienne took place on March 23, 1722, his episcopal ordination only on May 10, 1722. He took part in the clergy meeting of 1723 and was from 1732 to 1742 Premier Aumônier du Roi . On May 24, 1733, Louis XV appointed him to the Commandeur de l ' Ordre du Saint-Esprit . He was the chairman of the Clergy Assembly of 1734.

On the consistory of December 20, 1737, Pope Clement XII. appointed cardinal. He took part in the 1740 conclave (February 19 to August 17), at which Benedict XIV was elected Pope. On September 16, 1740 he finally received the cardinal insignia with the titular church of San Callisto as cardinal priest .

Controversy about his person

Saint-Simon reports that the Cardinal de Bouillon had been scheming since 1698 to get his nephew the cardinal dignity of "the most colorful and explosive public scandal". Saint-Simon hated Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne because he was in the Affair around Étienne Baluze's Histoire généalogique de la maison de Bouillon from 1708, which had led to Baluze's dismissal, on the other hand, because the Abbe d'Auvergne showed a pronounced tendency towards "fresh valets ".

“One more word about the Abbé d'Auvergne. When the Abbé de Castries , holy Archbishop of Tours, moved to the Archdiocese of Albi a little later [1719] , the Abbe d'Auvergne received that of Tours. The Abbé de Thesut, secretary of the orders of the Duke of Orléans , who now had the document and was working with the prince, uttered a terrible cry when he heard the appointment, of which he expressed his opinion by the horror it was at triggered him. The regent conceded everything and even added the account of the adventures with very strange and rather young lackeys, and since this enormous kind of debauchery was not his, he confessed to Thesut that he had had all the worries in the world, the Abbé d ' To make Auvergne bishop, but that he had long been so persecuted by the bouillons that in the end he had to get rid of the trouble. Thesut insisted again, then wrote the nomination on the document and shrugged; he himself told me this fact two days later. Shortly thereafter, this did not prevent the Abbé d'Auvergne, holy Archbishop of Tours, from being transferred to the Archdiocese of Vienne, which he liked better. This was Cardinal Fleury's worthy choice for the purple for appointment by the King, whose scandal was so vivid and universal that Cardinal Fleury could not hide his shame. We will be content here with this communication to present the happiness of one and show the worthy taste of the other, because this promotion exceeds the boundaries of these "memoirs" ".

Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne appointed Michel-Ange Slodtz (1705-1764) with the construction of a grave monument in the choir of the Cathedral of Vienne , where he and his predecessor, Archbishop Armand de Montmorin de Saint-Herem is buried.

literature

Web link

  • The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Biographical Dictionary, Pope Clement XII (1730-1740), Consistory of December 20, 1737 (X) celebrated in Rome ( online , accessed May 6, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwennicke; The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church : April 23, 1747
  2. ↑ au scandale public le plus éclatant et le plus éclaté , (Saint-Simon, Mémoires, Volume 4, Chapter 14 (1706), 1829, p. 245)
  3. ↑ Louis de Thésut, abbot of Saint-Père-en-Vallée at the time
  4. ↑ 1715-1723 Regent of France for the still underage Louis XV.
  5. ^ Translated from Saint-Simon, Mémoires , Volume 18, 1728, Chapter 8 [1720], pp. 117f
personal data
SURNAME La Tour d'Auvergne, Henri Oswald de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbé d'Auvergne, Cardinal d'Auvergne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cleric, Abbot of Cluny, Archbishop of Tours, Archbishop of Vienne, Cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcy
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1747
Place of death Paris