François de Joyeuse

French archbishop

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Joyeuse

  • In Joyeuse

    …his surviving brothers, the eldest, François (1562–1615), was archbishop of Narbonne from 1582 and cardinal from 1583, later to be archbishop of Rouen (1604). Consequently the leadership of the Catholic extremists in Languedoc passed on Anne’s death to his third brother, Antoine Scipion, who campaigned for some years with Spanish…

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