Louis, Count of Vaudémont
Louis de Lorraine (27 April 1500 – 23 August 1528) was a nobleman of
Lorraine who attempted to claim the Kingdom of Naples
. He was styled as the Count of Vaudémont.
A younger son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, he was born in Bar-le-Duc in 1500. His family possessed a hereditary claim to the throne of Naples, and his father had accepted the throne of Naples in 1493. However, the ambitions of Charles VIII towards the same object prevented René from taking up rule in Italy. Upon his death in 1508, Louis' older brother Antoine reverted to the style of Duke of Calabria to indicate his family's claims on Naples.
Originally destined for the Church and styled Prince de l'Eglise, he became
Bishop of Verdun in 1508 and Abbot of Saint-Mihiel in 1512. He was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He abandoned his ecclesiastical career in 1522, taking the title of Count of Vaudémont
.
Louis was present with the army led by
siege of Naples
by the French army was prolonged and unsuccessful. When plague broke out in the encampment, both Lautrec and Vaudémont succumbed.
References
- Dyer, Thomas Henry (1861). The History of Modern Europe. J. Murray. pp. 474–475. Retrieved 29 September 2008.