Louis Charles de Saint-Albin

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Louis Charles de Saint-Albin in the pose of the spiritual master; Painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud , 1723, now in the Getty Center , Los Angeles

Louis Charles de Saint-Albin (born April 5, 1698 in Paris ; † April 9, 1764 ibid), also called Abbé d'Orléans , was Bishop of Laon and Archbishop of Cambrai .

Louis Charles was the illegitimate and illegitimate son of the French regent and prince of the blood Philipp d'Orléans with his love affair, the opera dancer Florence Pellegrin (* 1660; † July 26, 1716). However, his father legitimized him in 1708. He was on good terms with his grandmother Liselotte von der Pfalz , although she otherwise did not appreciate bastards; she was even present at his Rigorosum at the Sorbonne .

Like all his children born in and out of wedlock, Duke Philip also looked after Louis Charles appropriately and appointed him abbot of Saint-Ouen and, on October 6, 1721, bishop and duke of Laon and peer of France . After the death of the minister Guillaume Dubois , he exchanged this office on October 17, 1723 for the now vacant dignity of archbishop and duke of Cambrai. The consecration was carried out by Armand de Rohan-Soubise , Cardinal Archbishop of Strasbourg . However, Saint-Albain hardly stayed in his diocese, but mostly at the court of Louis XV.

Louis Charles is buried in St-Sulpice de Paris .

literature

  • Honoré Fisquet : La France pontificale (Gallia christiana), histoire chronologique et biographique des archevêques et évêques de tous les diocèses de France depuis l'établissement du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours, divisée en 17 provinces ecclésiastique. Métropole de Cambrai . E. Repos, Paris 1869.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk von der Cruysse, Madame sein ist ein ellendes Handwerck, Liselotte von der Pfalz , 14th edition 2015, p. 597 f.
predecessor Office successor
Louis Annet de Clermont de Chaste de Roussillon Bishop of Laon
1721 - 1723 		Henri François-Xavier de Belsunce-Castelmoron
predecessor Office successor
Guillaume Dubois Archbishop of Cambrai
1723 - 1764 		Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Albin, Louis Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbé d'Orléans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Laon and Archbishop of Cambrai
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1764
Place of death Paris