Pierre-Louis de Leyssin

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Pierre-Louis de Leyssin (born May 2, 1722 in Aoste , † August 26, 1801 in Nuremberg ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, archbishop and emigrant.

Life

The Vicar General

Leyssin came from a noble family of the Dauphiné . His date of birth is controversial. Depending on the source, it fluctuates between 1721, 1722 (according to the historian Matthias Winkler) and 1724. At the age of 10 he was already a canon of the chapter of St. Peter's Church in Vienne . He studied in Paris, was ordained a priest in 1747 (incardinated in the diocese of Belley ) and received his doctorate in theology in 1748. From 1750 to 1767 he was vicar general, first in the Archdiocese of Vienne , from 1752 in the Diocese of Castres and from 1761 in the Diocese of Troyes . From 1762 to 1767 he was also Commendatarabbot of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Notre-Dame de Sept-Fontaines in Thiérache .

The Archbishop

In 1767 he was ordained Archbishop of Embrun in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris . The archbishopric included the dioceses of Digne , Grasse , Vence , Glandèves , Senez and Nice . In 1768 he took office in Embrun. During his tenure, he stood out for his erudition and his inclination to litigate.

Escape to Franconia and death in Nuremberg

Since he rejected the oath on the civil constitution of the clergy required by the French Revolution in 1790 , he was deposed on January 30, 1791 and replaced on March 8 by Ignace de Cazeneuve (1747-1806). His arrival on April 23, 1791 forced him to flee to Mont-Dauphin , from where he excommunicated his successor. On July 13, 1791, he fled to Piedmont via Ceillac , the Col de Tronchet, Maurin ( Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye ) and the Col de Mary . He first settled in Chambéry , but had to flee again from the French troops on September 21, 1792 and lived in Switzerland until 1798 (primarily in Lausanne ). In 1798 he went to southern Germany. In March 1799 he presented himself to Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Buseck in Bamberg , but did not obtain a residence permit because there was no room for his large entourage. He therefore stayed in Nuremberg, where he died in August 1801 and was buried by Jean-Denis-François Camus .

literature

  • Joannès Chetail: Pierre-Louis de Leyssin archevêque d'Embrun . In: Actes du 83e congrès des sociétés savantes Aix Marseille 1958 , Paris 1959, pp. 19–37 (online)
  • Matthias Winkler: The emigrants of the French Revolution in the bishopric and diocese of Bamberg . University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2010, pp. 90 and 188. (there also: Leysin; date of birth: 1722) (online)

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SURNAME Leyssin, Pierre-Louis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leysin, Pierre-Louis von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic Archbishop of Embrun
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Aoste (Isère)
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1801
Place of death Nuremberg