Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle

Nicolas de Granvelle (Portrait of Titian )

Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (also Granvelle the Elder ; Latin : Nicolaus Perrenotus Granvellanus ) (* 1484 in Ornans ; †  August 28, 1550 in Augsburg ) was a Burgundian lawyer and statesman in the Habsburg-ruled Holy Roman Empire .

Live and act

Nicolas Perrenot was born in Ornans, a small town not far from Besançon in the Free County of Burgundy , into a simple middle-class family. As Friedrich Schiller notes in his History of the Fall of the United Netherlands , his father is said to have been an iron smith. Nicolas Perrenot acquired the nobility title "Lord of Granvella" only later. He first studied at the university of the city of Dole, which is also part of the Free County, and was awarded a doctorate in both rights there . He then began his legal career as a lawyer in Dole. In 1518 he became a member of the local city parliament - an activity that was connected with his elevation to the nobility.

In 1519 Charles V entered the service and was initially responsible for petitions and petitions in the government authority of the Habsburg Netherlands . In 1521 he took part on the Habsburg side with Charles' Grand Chancellor Mercurino Gattinara in the negotiations between France and the Habsburgs, which took place in Calais with the mediation of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey . In 1530 he was finally appointed Chancellor of the Emperor and in 1540 chaired the Diets in Worms and Regensburg. He died on August 15, 1550 in Augsburg during the Reichstag held there.

His son Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle acted as his father's right-hand man in the service of Charles V during the Reichstag in the 1940s and later became one of the most influential politicians at the court of Philip II of Spain .

literature

• Wilhelm Maurenbrecher :  Granvelle, Nicolaus Perrenot from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 580-584.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicolaus Perrenotus Granvellanus, the Käyser Caroli V. Cantzler: Topographia Circuli Burgundici: Ornans
2. ↑ Friedrich Schiller, History of the Fall of the United Netherlands from the Spanish Government , Second Book Cardinal Granvella ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Entry "Granvella" in Pierer's Universal Lexikon from 1857
4. ↑ Entry "Granvella" at peter-hug.ch