Cardinal de Fleury
André Hercule de Fleury (22 June or 26 June 1653 – 29 January 1743) kent as the Cardinal de Fleury or the Cardinal Fleury wis a french nobleman an bishop an later a mister o Louis XV o Fraunce. He had enriched the royal library by many valuable oriental manuscripts, and wis a member o the Académie française frae 1717, o the Academy o Science, an the Academy o Inscriptions. He haed a rivalry with Louis Henri de Bourbon, "Duke o Bourbon" an his mistress Madame de Prie wis well known.
His Eminence André Hercule de Fleury | |
---|---|
Bishop emeritus o Fréjus | |
![]() Cardinal de Fleury, portrait bi Rigaud, (Versailles) | |
Airchdiocese | Aix |
Diocese | Fréjus |
See | Fréjus |
Installed | 18 May 1698 |
Term endit | 3 May 1715 |
Predecessor | Louis d'Aquin |
Successor | Pierre de Castellane |
Ither posts | Cardinal-priest, no title assigned First minister for Louis XV o Fraunce |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1679 |
Consecration | 22 November 1698 bi Louis Antoine de Noailles |
Creatit Cardinal | 11 September 1726 bi Pape Benedict XIII |
Rank | Cardinal-priest |
Personal details | |
Birth name | André Hercule de Fleury |
Born | 22 Juin 1653 Lodève, Languedoc-Roussillon, Fraunce |
Deed | 29 Januar 1743 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, Fraunce | (aged 89)
Naitionality | French |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | nobleman, cardinal, bishop |
Previous post | Bishop o Fréjus (1698–1715) |