Nicolas de Saulx-Tavannes

Nicolas de Saulx de Tavannes , engraving by Pietro Antonio Pazzi (1706–1770)

Nicolas de Saulx de Tavannes (born September 9, 1690 in Paris , † March 10, 1759 ibid) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church .

Life

His father was Charles-Marie de Saulx, Count of Tavannes and Beaumont, his mother Marie-Catherine d'Aguesseau was a sister of the Chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau . Nicolas de Saulx received a canon position at the cathedral of Lyon ( Comte de Lyon ). On March 18, 1716 he received his doctorate in theology at the Sorbonne and was appointed Commendatar Abbot of the Augustinian Abbey of Montbenoît in the Archdiocese of Besançon on October 23, 1717 .

Bishop of Châlons

As Vicar General of the Diocese of Rouen residing in Pontoise , he was elected Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne by the King on January 8, 1721 , and on May 28, 1721 in the first consistory of Pope Innocent XIII. preconized. The papal certificate of appointment is dated September 24, 1721. It was consecrated on November 9, 1721 in the Theatine Church in Paris by Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury , assisted by Bishops César le Blanc of Avranches and François-Honoré de Maniban of Mirepoix. Two days later he took the oath of allegiance to the king before the regent Philippe d'Orléans and took his seat in Parliament on December 4th as Comte de Châlons .

In his capacity as peer of France he assisted - on behalf of the prevented Archbishop-Duke of Langres, François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre - on October 25, 1722 in Reims at the coronation of Louis XV. as King of France and on July 14, 1724, married Duke Louis d'Orléans and Princess Augusta Maria von Baden at Sarry Castle . On March 12, 1725 he received the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-Thierache in the diocese of Laon in Kommende and in the same year represented the Ecclesiastical Province of Reims at the National Assembly of the French clergy (Assemblée générale du Clergé). In May 1726 he became Queen Maria Leszczyńska's first confessor . On January 14, 1731 he consecrated Armand Bazin de Bezons in Paris as Bishop of Carcassonne.

Archbishop of Rouen

Promoted to the archbishop's seat of Rouen by royal decree on August 28, 1733, he was preconized in the consistory of December 2, 1733 and received a certificate and a pallium on December 17 . On January 28, 1734, represented by the dean of the cathedral Bigars de La Londe, he took possession of his diocese and solemnly moved into the cathedral on May 23.

On July 17, 1734, Bishop de Saulx consecrated the chapel of the Christian School Brothers , to which the remains of the founder Jean Baptiste de La Salle had been transferred from the parish church of Saint-Severs, where they had rested since Lasalle's death in 1719, the day before. The following year he was a chairman of the National Assembly of the French clergy. In 1739 he issued a new ritual for his diocese. In 1740 he consecrated his Vicar General François de Fitz-James as Bishop of Soissons. In January 1743 he became the Queen's Grand Aumônier . In 1745 he was again one of the chairmen of the National Assembly of the Clergy and received on April 24, 1756 the Abbey of St-Étienne de Caen in the Diocese of Bayeux in Coming. On May 21, 1747 by Louis XV. Appointed commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit , he received the insignia on January 1, 1748, and on September 19, 1749, on the occasion of a royal visit to Rouen from King Ludwig, he was given the duties of a Grand Almosier . In 1750 the ecclesiastical province of Rouen deposed him again to the national assembly of the clergy. On May 30, 1752, the king appointed him a member of a commission to clarify the disputes caused by Jansenism .

Created cardinal by Pope Benedict XIV at the suggestion of the king in the consistory of April 5, 1756 , Mgr. De Saulx received the biretta from King Ludwig on June 7 and again took the oath of allegiance on June 13, but did not travel to Rome to receive the cardinal's hat from the Pope and take possession of a titular church; he also did not take part in the conclave of 1758. In February 1757 King Ludwig gave him Signy Abbey in the Diocese of Reims in Kommende and on June 20 appointed him Grand Almosier of the Kingdom of France. On April 19, 1758 he was also provisional to the Sorbonne in Paris.

He died on March 10, 1759 in Paris after a surgical operation and was buried on March 12 in the church of Saint-Sulpice .

literature

• Fisquet H [onoré Jean Pierre]: La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana). Paris 1864-1871.
• Jean, Armand: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Paris [et al.] 1891.

Web links

• Saulx-Tavannes, Nicolas de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 8, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis III de La Vergne de Tressan	Archbishop of Rouen 1734–1759	Dominique de La Rochefoucauld