[112] L’Etoile, Journal de Henri IV, vol. ii. p. 589.

[113] Cayet, p. 187.  L’Etoile, vol. i. pp. 539, 540.

[114] Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. i. pp. 276, 277.

[115] Albert de Bellievre was the second son of the celebrated Chancellor Pomponne de Bellievre and of Marie Prunier, demoiselle de Grignon.  He was a distinguished classic and an elegant scholar.  Having become Archbishop of Lyons, he subsequently transferred that dignity to his younger brother Claude, and retired to his abbey of Jouy, where he died in 1621.

[116] Antoine de Roquelaure, Seigneur de Roquelaure in Armagnac, de Guadoux, etc., marshal of France, grand-master of the King’s wardrobe, knight of the Orders of St. Michael and the Holy Ghost, perpetual mayor of Bordeaux, etc., was the younger son of Geraud Roquelaure, and the representative of an illustrious house.  He was highly esteemed both by Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, and by Henry IV, who loaded him with honours and distinctions in requital of his faithful and zealous services.  He subsequently became governor of several provinces, and was created a marshal of France by Louis XIII, in 1615.  He restored to their allegiance Clerac, Nerac, and several other revolted fortesses; and died at Lectoure in 1625, at the age of eighty-two years.

[117] Daniel, vol. vii. p. 398.

[118] Duc de Bellegarde.

[119] Francois de Joyeuse was the second son of Guillaume, Vicomte de Joyeuse, Marshal of France.  He was born in the year 1562, and received a brilliant education, by which he profited so greatly as to become celebrated for his scientific attainments.  He was successively Archbishop of Narbonne, of Toulouse, and of Rouen; and enjoyed the entire confidence of three monarchs, by each of whom he was entrusted with the most important state affairs.  Highly esteemed, alike for his wisdom, prudence, and capacity, he died full of honours at the age of fifty-three years, at Avignon, where he had taken up his abode as senior cardinal.  He left, as monuments of his piety, a seminary which he founded at Rouen, a residence for the Jesuits at Pontoise, and another for the Fathers of the Oratory at Dieppe.

[120] Pierre de Gondy (or Gondi), Bishop of Langres, and subsequently Archbishop of Paris, who was called to the Conclave by Pope Sixtus V in 1587.  He died at Paris in February 1616, at the advanced age of eighty-four years.  The Cardinal de Gondy was the first Archbishop of Paris, the metropolis having previously been only an episcopal see.

[121] Francois d’Escoubleau, better known under the name of Cardinal de Sourdis, was the son of Francois d’Escoubleau, Marquis d’Alliere, and was of an ancient and noble house.  He distinguished himself so greatly by his mental and moral qualities as to secure the confidence and regard of Henri IV, who, in 1598, obtained for him a cardinal’s hat; and in the following year he was created Archbishop of Bordeaux, in which city he died in 1628.