Philippe de la Chambre
Philippe de La Chambre (c. 1490 – 1550) was a French
Family
His father was Louis de la Chambre, vicomte de Maurienne.[1] His mother (Louis' second wife) was Anne de la Tour, daughter of Bertrand de la Tour d' Auvergne, Comte de Boulogne; she was the widow of Alexander Stuart, Duke of Albany, son of King James II of Scotland. He had a full brother, Jean Comte de la Chambre, and a half-sister, Françoise, who married Gabriel de Seyssel, Seigneur d'Aix.
Abbot of Corbie
Dom Philippe, brother of the Comte de la Chambre of Savoy, a monk of Cluny, was elected
Cardinal
In a Consistory on 7 November 1533 at Marseille, Philippe de la Chambre was created a
Cardinal de la Chambre took part in the Conclave of 1534, which followed the death of Pope Clement VII who died on 25 September 1534.[5] The Conclave opened on 11 October, and reached a decision on 11 October without any balloting. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, was elected by "inspiration", and his election was duly recorded by the Masters of Ceremonies. Nonetheless, next morning a written ballot was taken, and Farnese was elected unanimously.[6] De la Chambre's active participation was minimal.
The Cardinal was Apostolic Administrator of the
Cardinal de la Chambre was promoted
On 19 July 1546 the Cardinal de Boulogne was named apostolic administrator of the diocese of
Conclave of 1549-1550
Death
Cardinal Philippe de la Chambre died in Rome on 21 February 1550,[14] having resigned Corbie to his nephew Sebastien de la Chambre. He was interred in the church of Santissima Trinità dei Monte.
Misconceptions
It is often repeated in the older literature that Philippe de la Chambre was Bishop of Boulogne. There was no bishopric of Boulogne in his lifetime. Boulogne was part of the diocese of Therouanne. Therouanne was destroyed in the wars of religion, and the diocese was restructured and renamed the Diocese of Boulogne in 1566.[15] Philippe de la Chambre was not Bishop of Therouanne (Morinensis) either.[16]
It is also stated that Philippe's brother Jean was Duke of Albany. Their mother had been Duchess of Albany in her first marriage, to Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, but he had died in a tournament in 1485. John Stewart, their only son, became Duke of Albany. Philippe de la Chambre was the product of his mother's second marriage, and was the half-brother of John Stewart, but Philippe also had a full brother from his mother's second marriage named John (Jean), who was Comte de la Chambre.
References
- ^ Samuel Guichenon (1650). Contenant les Genealogies des Familles Nobles de Bresse & de Bugey (in French). Vol. Troisieme partie. Lyon: Huguetan. pp. 238–239. Leon Menabrea (1865). Des origines féodales dans les Alpes occidentales (in French). Turin: Imprimerie Royale. pp. 399–404.
- ^ Denis de Sainte-Marthe; Barthélemy Hauréau (1751). Gallia Christiana: In Provincias Ecclesiasticas Distributa, tra tempora deducitur, & probatur ex authenticis Instrumentis ad calcem appositis. De provincia Remensi, ... Instrumenta ad tomum 9 ... quae pertinent ad ecclesiam Remensem (in Latin). Vol. Tomus decimus (10). Paris: Typographia Regia. p. 1287.
- ^ Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (2001), p. 345.
- ^ Guilelmus van Gulik; Konrad Eubel (1923). L. Schmitz-Kallenberg (ed.). Hierarchia catholica medii aevi (in Latin). Vol. III (editio altera ed.). Münster: sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae. pp. 20–22 and p. 67.
- ^ Gulik and Eubel, p. 22 n. 1. Eubel incorrectly lists Claes and Spinola as absent.
- ^ Petruccelli, pp. 7-8.
- ^ Gulik and Eubel, pp. 130-131.
- ^ Gulik and Eubel, p. 59.
- ^ Gulik and Eubel, pp. 178-179.
- ^ Petruccelli, pp. 32-35, 39, 47, and 48.
- ^ Rawdon Brown (1873). Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice and in the Other Libraries of Northern Italy: 1534 - 1554. Vol. V. London: Longman. p. 298.
- ^ Petruccelli, pp. 56-61.
- ^ J. P. Adams, Sede Vacante 1559. Retrieved: 2016-04-25.
- ^ according to Gulik and Eubel, p. 22; or on 23 April 1550, Gallia christiana X, p. 1287.
- ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Herarchy:Diocese of Boulogne (-Sur-Mer)
- ^ Cf. Gulik and Eubel. pp. 250-251. Gallia christiana Volume 10 (Paris 1751), p. 1571.
Bibliography
- Petruccelli della Gattina, Ferdinando (1864). Histoire diplomatique des conclaves (in French). Vol. Second volume. Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie.