Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Louis de Nogaret de La Valette

Roman Catholic Cardinal

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1593

Place of Birth: Angoulême, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1639

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Louis de Nogaret de La Valette

  • Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (8 February 1593, in Angoulême – 28 September 1639, in Rivoli) was a Roman Catholic cardinal and lieutenant general in the French Army. Louis was the third son of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554–1642) and Marguerite de Foix-Candale. As early as age 6, he received the abbey of Grandselve.
  • In 1611, he left this abbey to François de Joyeuse and became Archbishop of Toulouse in his place.
  • He also became Grand Almoner of France of King Louis XIII of France. In 1621, Pope Paul V made him cardinal-deacon of Sant'Adriano al Foro. Louis also was the commander of an army in the Thirty Years' War, commanding a French detachment alongside the army of Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in the summer of 1635.
  • Together, they took Bingen, lifted the Siege of Mainz, conquered Zweibrücken and withdrew the army from Mainz back to Lorraine after desertion sapped it of two-thirds of its men.
  • Cardinal de La Valette served in the war under Cardinal Richelieu, which earned him the nickname of cardinal valet (servant cardinal).

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