Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont

Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont (* 1617 ; † November 9, 1697 in Bordeaux ) was a French lawyer, diplomat and Archbishop of Bordeaux (from 1680 to 1697).

Life

origin

Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont came from a famous, noble family in Champagne . He was the seventh son of Claude d'Anglure, Baron de Bourlemont and Prince of Amblise in Hainaut , and his wife Angélique Dyacette. He was born in 1617. His brother Charles-François was also a bishop, including Archbishop of Toulouse (1650–1657).

Lawyer and diplomat

Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont studied at the Jesuit University Pont-à-Mousson , where he earned a doctorate in both rights . Mazarin sent him to the Rota in Rome as an auditor in 1657 , which he held for 22 years. Louis XIV also appointed him on January 6, 1664 as royal plenipotentiary to the Holy See , which meant that he had to perform various diplomatic tasks at the papal court for France . The Peace Treaty of Pisa of February 12, 1664 was signed by Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont for Louis XIV and by Pope Alexander VII by César Rasponi. This ended a rather banal incident in which the French ambassador in Rome, Duc de Créqui , and the Pope's Corsican guard were involved. The young French King Louis XIV occupied Avignon and threatened to send an army to Italy , whereupon Alexander VII complied with the French demands.

bishop

Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont had rejected several appointments to bishops (1668 bishopric Tournai , 1669 Lavour ). On March 3, 1679, Louis XIV appointed him, according to the Concordat of 1516 , Bishop of Fréjus . On October 1, 1679, he received episcopal ordination from the Roman Vicar General Gaspare Cardinal Carpegna in the Church of the Jesuits . A short time later, however, on January 12, 1680, Louis XIV appointed him Bishop of Carcassonne , but he was not to take possession of this bishopric either, because on September 6, 1680 he was appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux . The papal confirmation took place in April 1681, shortly afterwards he made his entry into Bordeaux . Although closely associated with the French royal court, he resided and only left Bordeaux for compelling reasons, for example as the elected representative of the first estate of the archdiocese during the assembly of the French clergy in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1685 . De Bourlemont continued the ecclesiastical reform efforts of his three predecessors, although he hardly carried out the visitations required by the Council of Trent himself , probably due to his advanced age. Instead, he delegated visitations to his vicars general and archdeacons. In 1683 he had a catechism Abregé de la doctrine chrétienne published.

Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont died at the age of 79 on November 9, 1697 in Bordeaux and was buried in St. André's Cathedral.

literature

• Robert Boutruche: Histoire de Bordeaux, tome IV, Bordeaux de 1453 à 1715. Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, Bordeaux 1966.
• Daniel-Rops: L'Eglise des temps classiques. Le grand siècle des âmes. Fayard, Paris 1958.
• Bernard Peyrous: La Réforme catholique à Bordeaux, 1600-1719. Le renouveau d'un diocèse. (Recherches et travaux d'histoire sur le Sud-Ouest de la France VII). Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, Volume 2, Bordeaux 1995.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry de Bethune	Archbishop of Bordeaux 1680–1697	Armand Bazin de Bezons