Robert de Lenoncourt (cardinal)
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Cardinal Robert de Lenoncourt |
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Santa Anastasia (1540-1547) Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (1555-1560) |
| Diocese | Chalons-sur-Marne (1535-1550) Metz (1550-1555) Embrun (1556-1560) Auxerre (1556-1560) Toulouse (1560-1561) Arles (1560-1561) Bishop of Sabina (1560-1561) |
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| Created Cardinal | 20 December 1538 by Pope Paul III |
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| Born | 1485 ? |
| Died | February 4, 1561 (aged 75–76) La Charité-sur-Loire |
| Buried | Prieure de La Charité-sur-Loire |
| Nationality | French |
| Parents | Thierry de Lenoncourt Jeanne de Ville |
| Education | Licenciate in Canon and Civil Law |
Robert de Lenoncourt (1485?; – 4 February, 1561) was a French bishop, Cardinal, and diplomat. He was the son of Thierry de Lenoncourt, Seigneur de Vignory, Councillor and Chamberlain of the King, and Jeanne de Ville. He had a brother, Henry, Sire de Lenoncourt and Baron of Vignory, a sister named Jacquette, who married Jean d'Aguerre, son of the Governor of Mouzon (January 1509), and a sister named Nicole, who married Érard du Châtelet. Robert's paternal uncle, also called Robert de Lenoncourt, was Archbishop of Reims.
From 1515 to 1536 Robert de Lenoncourt was Prior of the monastery of S. Portianus (Pourçain) in the diocese of Clermont. In 1523 he was named Abbot of the Abbey of S. Rémi in Reims. In 1537 he restored the tomb of Saint Rémi. In 1530 he was named Abbot of the royal abbey of Tournus, making his formal entry on 4 June 1531. He was also a Protonotary Apostolic and Almoner to the King and Queen of Navarre, Henry II and Marguerite of Angoulême, the sister of King Francis I of France. Lenoncourt was Treasurer of the Church of Reims, and held a license in utroque iure (both Civil Law and Canon Law).
Lenoncourt was apparently Vicar-General of the diocese of Reims, during the episcopacy of Cardinal Jean de Guise-Lorraine (1532-1538).
Lenoncourt was appointed Bishop of Châlons by Francis I of France in 1535, an appointment confirmed by Pope Paul III (Farnese) on 10 May 1535. He resigned the diocese in 1550, in favor of his nephew Philippe, though he continued to be Administrator of the Diocese of Châlons until Philippe's consecration; as part of the arrangement he retained the use of the house of the Bishops of Châlons in Paris. As Bishop of Châlons he was present among the Peers of France in the Lit de Justice of 15 January 1536 [1537], against the Emperor Charles V. Bishop de Lenoncourt was sent as Ambassador to the Emperor by Francis I, in the matter of the Duchy of Guelders, which was a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, but which was in alliance with the French, thanks to a secret treaty of October 1534. The Duke of Guelders (1538-1543), William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg married King Francis' niece, Jeanne d'Albret, in 1541.
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