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About François de Tournon
François de Tournon was a French Augustinian friar, an archbishop, diplomat, courtier, and cardinal. From 1536 he was also a military supply officer of French forces operating in Provence, Savoy and Piedmont. In the same year he founded the Collège de Tournon. For a period he was effectively France's foreign minister. He was a prominent leader in the fight against Lutheranism and Calvinism, especially at the French Royal Court, and what he perceived as the growing Huguenot menace to both doctrinal orthodoxy and the social order. He took a prominent role in the Estates General of 1560, the Colloquy of Poissy and the Colloquy of Saint-Germain in 1562. He participated in the papal conclaves of 1534, 1549, and 1559.
Everything about François de Tournon →- Occupation
- diplomat, Catholic priest
- Position held
- Dean of the College of Cardinals, ambassador, apostolic administrator, cardinal-bishop of Ostia
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- 1489
- Died
- April 22, 1562