Catholic priest
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle.
Burgundian advisor to Margaret of Parma, later cardinal, and minister of the Spanish Habsburgs (1517-1586)
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About Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, typically known as Cardinal Granvelle in English, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs. Granvelle was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century".
Everything about Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle →- Occupation
- Catholic priest, Catholic bishop, art collector, diplomat
- Position held
- Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals, Roman Catholic Bishop of Arras, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mechelen, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Besançon
- Citizenship
- France, Spain
- Born
- August 20, 1517
- Died
- September 21, 1586