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The king and the duc de Luynes recalled Richelieu, believing that he would be able to reason with the queen. Richelieu was successful in this endeavour, mediating between her and her son. [ 31 ] Complex negotiations bore fruit when the Treaty of Angoulême was ratified; Marie de Médicis was given complete freedom, but would remain at peace ...
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars The Execution of Cinq-Mars and de Thou. The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhône by Paul Delaroche, 1829. Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi kwafje də ʁyze]; 1620 – 12 September 1642) was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many ...
The plotters planned to have the Anne of Austria marry the future king, leaving her on the throne after the removal of her husband. [5] The Duke of Vendôme would then become the power behind the throne. The Count of Chalais, a gentleman of the king's household, was highly regarded by the king, who had appointed him master of the wardrobe.
The Duchess of Angoulême and the Count of Artois pressured King Louis for the dismissal of his obsolete ministry. Talleyrand tendered his resignation on 20 September. Louis chose the Duke of Richelieu to be his new Prime Minister. Richelieu was chosen because he was acceptable to Louis' family and to the reactionary Chamber of Deputies. [115]
It was created on 26 November 1629 for Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (known as Cardinal Richelieu) who, as a Catholic clergyman, had no issue to pass it down to. It instead passed to his great-nephew, Armand Jean de Vignerot , [ 2 ] grandson of his elder sister Françoise du Plessis (1577–1615), who had married René de Vignerot ...
François du Plessis, sieur de Richelieu (c. 1548 –10 June 1590) [1] was a French noble, military officer, and royal official during the French Wars of Religion.Born into an obscure noble family from Poitou, Richelieu began his career in the service of the Montpensier.
With the permission of King Louis XIII, Richelieu created from scratch a walled town on a grid plan and, enclosing within its precincts the modest home of his childhood, an adjacent palace (the Château de Richelieu proper) [1] surrounded by an ornamental moat and large imposing walls enclosing a series of entrance courts towards the town and ...
On the renewal of the civil war in 1625, the fleet sent from Holland to aid the French king was placed under his command. [6] In 1625, Henri defeated the French Protestant fleet under Soubise and seized the islands of Ré and Oleron, but the jealousy of Cardinal Richelieu deprived him of the means of following up these advantages. [7]