Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade
Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade (1609- May 12, 1697 Metz) was a 17th century Archbishop of Embrun[1] and bishop of Metz.[2]
Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade was born in 1609 the son of François Comte d'Aubusson and Elizabeth Brachet of Pérusse,[3] and was brother of François III Aubusson marshal duke of La Feuillade and uncle of Louis Aubusson, duke of La Feuillade, also marshal duke. He gained a degree in theology and became Archbishop of Embrun from 1649 to 1668,[4][5] and abbot of Joyenval in 1668 in Saint-Jean de Laon and the Abbey of Saint-Loup of Troyes.
In the 1651 assembly of the clergy he was a loud voice for taking action against the Protestants and he was ambassador to Spain from 1661 to 1664 and was the 91st bishop of Metz,[6] and from 1669 to 1697, was an adviser State of Church.[7]
In 1696 a report of his bishopric records that the Bishop had died and an audit found thousands of Francs missing. The report concludes that during the time the Bishop was senile at the end of his life, his nephew, the Duke of Feuillade plundered its coffers of more than 80 000 pounds.
Saint-Simon described the prelate as familiar, avaricious and easily jokingly of his own greed. He had become senile three or four years before his death.
References
- ↑ Les Évèques et les Archevèques de France
- ↑ Georges d’Aubusson de La Feuillade sur Saarländische Biografien.
- ↑ Antoine Albert, Histoire géographique, naturelle, ecclésiastique et civile du diocèse d'Embrun (1783) p 250.
- ↑ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 179.
- ↑ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1649, Number 16
- ↑ Archbishop Georges d’Aubusson de la Feuillade.
- ↑ Armand Jean, Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801, Paris et Mamers, 1891, p. 408.
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