Jean François Paul de Gondi
Catholic cardinal
Died when: 64 years 329 days (778 months)Star Sign: Libra
Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde.
The Florentine banking and noble Gondi family had been introduced into France by Catherine de' Medici;Catherine offered Jérome (Girolamo) de Gondi in 1573 the château that he made the nucleus of the Château de Saint-Cloud; his hôtel in the Faubourg Saint-Germain of Paris became the Hôtel de Condé in the following generation.
The Gondi acquired great estates in Brittany and became connected with the noblest houses of the kingdom.
Related People
Catholic cardinal
Catholic cardinal
Catholic cardinal
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License