Louis-André de Grimaldi explained

Louis-André Grimaldi d'Antibes (17 December 173628 December 1804)[1] [2] was a French nobleman and bishop. He was one of the Princes of Monaco, Bishop of Le Mans, then a Peer of France as Count-Bishop of Noyon from 1777 and bishop emeritus after he resigned from the post of bishop. He spent his later years in London. He was described as "a Voltairean prelate".[3]

Biography

Grimaldi was born on 17 December 1736 into the noble House of Grimaldi of Monaco as lord of Cagnes and Antibes, in the château of Cagnes,[4] in southeastern France. He was the son of Honoré IV Grimaldi, Marquis de Cagnes and Hélène-de-Orcel Plaisians, and belonged to the ancient nobility of France, descended from the House of Bourbon.[1]

Grimaldi became Vicar General of the Archbishop of Rouen. He was appointed bishop of Le Mans on 5 July 1767, after which he began a series of unpopular 'improvements', such as sweeping away the high altar and selling the Medieval and Renaissance silver without making an inventory of it.[5] A portrait painted by Charles-Étienne Gaucher[6] was hung in the vestry when he left Le Mans in 1777.

On 16 October 1777, Pope Pius VI appointed Grimaldi as Bishop of Noyon;[7] he was also Count of Noyon. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was ordained to the priesthood by Grimaldi.[8] Years later, when Talleyrand was Bishop of Autun in Burgundy from November 1788, he was sworn in by Grimaldi under a papal order on 4 January 1789 as the Bishop of Noyon in the chapel of Saint-Sauveur de la Solitude, a retreat attached to the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Issy.[9] The diocese of Noyon was abolished 12 July 1790.[10]

In 1791, Louis Grimaldi refused the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy, and emigrated to England. He lived in London and the British government gave him a small pension until his death in London, 28 December 1804.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany. LXVII . Archibald Constable . Edinburgh . 10 May 2013 . January 1805. 77.
  2. Book: White, William. Notes and Queries. 9 May 2013. 1907. Oxford University Press. 88.
  3. Book: McCabe, Joseph. Talleyrand: A Biographical Study . 1907 . D. Appleton & Co . New York . 56 . 9 May 2013.
  4. Web site: oil painting . Guillaume . Voiriot . His Highness Louis André de Grimaldi . online catalog, antique dealer . François . Würz . 823 . 9 May 2013 . Seagoing.
  5. Book: Dunlop, Ian. The Cathedrals' Crusade: The Rise of the Gothic Style in France . 1982 . Taplinger . New York . 122. 9780800813161.
  6. Book: de Courcelles, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien . Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Peers of France: Great Dignitaries of the Crown, Principal Noble Families of the Kingdom, and Princely Houses of Europe, Preceded by the Genealogy of the House of France . Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France: des grands dignitaires de la couronne, des principales familles nobles du royaume, et des maisons princières de l'Europe, précédée de la généalogie de la maison de France . 10 May 2013. 1826 . 2 . French.
  7. Web site: Miscellaneous . research . The Ancien Régime Peerage (4 August 1789). 3 May 2013. Napoleon series.
  8. Book: Harris, Robin . Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France. 2007. John Murray. 978-0-7195-6486-4 . 35.
  9. Web site: 4 janvier 1789, Talleyrand est consacré évêque à Issy . Maestracci . P . Bonnet . Charles . French . 4 May 2013 . Histoire et Recherche . . Historim . 4 January 1789, Talleyrand consecrated bishop at Issy.
  10. Web site: Les évêques de Noyon de l'an 531 à la Révolution française . Les évêques du diocèse de saint Lucien (an 230) à aujourd'hui . 4 May 2013 . Église Catholique d’Oise . French . . Diocese de Beauvois, Noyon & Senlis . The bishops of the diocese from Saint Lucian (year 230) to today . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131208165101/http://oise.catholique.fr/rubriques/droite/art-culture-et-foi/notre-histoire/temoins-dhier/les-eveques-de-beauvais-de-230-a-1792/document_view . 8 December 2013 .
  11. Web site: Cheney, David M. . Bishop Louis-André de Grimaldi. 11 May 2013 . 12 May 2013. Catholic Hierarchy.

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