About Pierre de Gondi
Lived 1533 – 1616 (aged 82–83). Pierre de Gondi was a French catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Pierre de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1533–1616) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Gondi family.
Life Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
He was created cardinal in 1587.
Gondi undertook several missions to Rome under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France and attended the 1592 papal conclave.
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Who was Pierre de Gondi?
Catholic cardinal (1533-1616)
When was Pierre de Gondi born?
Pierre de Gondi was born in 1533 in Lyon.
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Pierre de Gondi died on 17 February 1616 in Paris.
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Pierre de Gondi was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Pierre de Gondi was French.
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