Louis of Luxembourg

His Eminence

Louis of Luxembourg

Archbishop of Rouen
Archdiocese| Rouen
In office| 1436–1443
Other post(s)| Cardinal Bishop of Frascati and Bishop of Ely
Orders
Consecration| by Renaud de Chartres, archbishop of Reims
Created cardinal| 18 December 1439
by Pope Eugenius IV
Rank| Cardinal priest
Personal details
Died| 18 September 1443
Buried| Ely Cathedral
Parents| John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir and Marguerite of Enghien

Louis of Luxembourg; (died 1443). Bishop of Therouanne 1415–1436, Archbishop of Rouen, 1436, Bishop of Ely 1437, Cardinal.[1]

The youngest son of John Count of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir, d. 1397 and Marguerite, Countess of Brienne daughter of Louis of Enghien. The Counts of Luxembourg were clients of the Dukes of Burgundy and Louis became a member of Duke Philip the Good's council in 1419.[2]

As bishop of Thérouanne he consecrated on 26 October 1415 part of the battlefield of Agincourt as a grave-site for the fallen.[3] In 1425 during the Anglo-Burgundian alliance against France (1419-1435) John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France appointed Louis to the Grand Conseil governing from Paris. King Charles VII of France recovered Paris in 1436 and Louis was forced to flee to Rouen in English Normandy. He became Chancellor of the Lancastrian council there and was elected Archbishop of Rouen in 1436.[4] He was the leading native administrator/collaborator with the Lancastrian regime in France. His niece Jacquetta was the wife of John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, who acted as regent for his nephew Henry VI.[citation needed]

Louis visited England in 1437 and became a naturalized citizen.[5] Henry VI granted him the bishopric of Ely in 1437/38.[6] This was the fifth wealthiest see in England, yet also amongst the smallest in terms of size or burden.[citation needed] Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Henry VI's lieutenant in France died at his post in Rouen in 1439. Louis continued as Chancellor, conducting the government of Normandy and the war against King Charles VII from Rouen.[7]

Pope Eugenius IV made Louis a cardinal at the request of the English in 1439.[8]

Richard, Duke of York became the king's lieutenant in France in 1441 and in September 1442 Louis, as the English Chancellor in France, was named with York to a commission to attempt to negotiate a treaty with France. He was empowered to select a suitable place for a meeting.[9]

Louis died on 18 September 1443.[10] His body was buried in the cathedral of Ely, while his heart was sent to Rouen.[11]

## Citations

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1. ^ Miranda, Salvador. "Luxembourg, Louis de". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
2. ^ C. Allmand, Henry V, p. 140
3. ^ Allmand, Christopher (1992). Henry V. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 96\. ISBN 0-520-08293-1.
4. ^ B. J. H. Rowe, The Grand Conseil under the Duke of Bedford, 1422-25 in Oxford Essays in Medieval Studies, pp. 210, 229, 232
5. ^ Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council V, ed. Nicholas, p. 28
6. ^ Fryde,Handbook of British Chronology, p. 224
7. ^ A.J. Pollard, John Talbot and the War in France, 1427-1453, pp.29 and 40
8. ^ G.L. Harriss, Cardinal Beaufort, p. 272.
9. ^ Rymer, Foedera XI, pp. 13-14. J. Fergusson, English Diplomacy 1422-1461 p. 181
10. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 244
11. ^ Florida International University, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Biographical Dictionary of Eugenius IV (1431-1447), Consistory of 18 December 1439 (III)

## References

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* Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

## External links

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* "Louis de Luxembourg". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 27 September 2014.

Catholic Church titles

Preceded by

Matthieu or Renaud de Bapaume

|  Bishop of Thérouanne
1415–1436  | Succeeded by

Jean V "the Young"

Preceded by

Hugh V des Orges

|  Archbishop of Rouen
1436–1443  | Succeeded by

Raoul Roussel

Preceded by

Philip Morgan

|  Bishop of Ely
1437–1443  | Succeeded by

Thomas Bourchier

Vacant

Title last held by

Francesco Uguccione |  Cardinal Priest of Quattro Santi Coronati
1440–1442  | Vacant

Title next held by

Alfons de Borja
Preceded by

Hugues Lancelot de Lusignan

|  Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1442–1443  | Succeeded by

Julian Cesarini

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Bishops of Ely

High Medieval|

* Hervey le Breton
* Nigel
* Geoffrey Ridel
* William de Longchamp
* Eustace
* Robert of York
* John of Fountains
* Geoffrey de Burgh
* Hugh of Northwold
* William of Kilkenny
* Hugh de Balsham
* John Kirkby
* William of Louth
* John Salmon/John Langton
* Ralph Walpole

Late Medieval|

* Robert Orford
* John Ketton
* John Hotham
* Simon Montacute
* Thomas de Lisle
* Simon Langham
* John Barnet
* Thomas Arundel
* John Fordham
* Philip Morgan
* Lewis of Luxembourg
* Thomas Bourchier
* William Grey
* John Morton
* John Alcock

Early modern|

* Richard Redman
* James Stanley
* Nicholas West
* Thomas Goodrich
* Thomas Thirlby
* Richard Cox
* Martin Heton
* Lancelot Andrewes
* Nicholas Felton
* John Buckeridge
* Francis White
* Matthew Wren
* Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
* Matthew Wren
* Benjamin Lany
* Peter Gunning
* Francis Turner
* Simon Patrick
* John Moore
* William Fleetwood
* Thomas Green
* Robert Butts
* Thomas Gooch
* Matthias Mawson
* Edmund Keene
* James Yorke

Late modern|

* Thomas Dampier
* Bowyer Sparke
* Joseph Allen
* Thomas Turton
* Harold Browne
* James Woodford
* Lord Alwyne Compton
* Frederic Chase
* Leonard White-Thomson
* Bernard Heywood
* Edward Wynn
* Noel Hudson
* Edward Roberts
* Peter Walker
* Stephen Sykes
* Anthony Russell
* Stephen Conway

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