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Catholic cardinal
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Birth
1533, Lyon, France
Death
17 February 1616, Paris, France (aged 83 years)
Age
83 years
Awards
Commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit
Knight of the Order of Saint-Michel
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Biography
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.
Godni 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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