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Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.
French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
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About Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.
Everything about Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, art collector, writer
- Position held
- diocesan bishop, cardinal, governor of Brittany, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of France
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Born
- September 9, 1585
- Died
- December 4, 1642