Pierre de Gondi

Pierre de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1533–1616) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Gondi family.

Life
Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis.  In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.

He was created cardinal in 1587.

Godni undertook several missions to Rome under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France and attended the 1592 papal conclave.

References

Sources
 
House of Gondi on web.genealogie

Category:1533 births
Category:1616 deaths
Category:People from Lyon
Category:French cardinals
Category:Bishops of Paris
Category:Bishops of Langres
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Holy Spirit
Category:16th-century peers of France
Category:Burials at Notre Dame de Paris