Louis-André de Grimaldi
| Louis-André de Grimaldi | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Noyon | |
| |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Diocese of Noyon |
| In office | 30 March 1778 – 28 December 1804 |
| Predecessor | Charles de Broglie |
| Successor | Diocese suppressed |
| Previous post | Bishop of Le Mans (1767-1777) |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 5 July 1767 by Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Louis-André Grimaldi d'Antibes 17 December 1736 Cagnes, County of Provence, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 28 December 1804 (aged 68) London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Louis-André Grimaldi d'Antibes (17 December 1736 – 28 December 1804)[1][2] was a French nobleman and bishop. He was one of the Princes of Monaco, Bishop of Le Mans, then a Peer of France as Count-Bishop of Noyon from 1777 and bishop emeritus after he resigned from the post of bishop.[2][3] He spent his later years in London. He was described as "a Voltairean prelate".[4]
Biography
Grimaldi was born on 17 December 1736 into the noble House of Grimaldi of Monaco as lord of Cagnes and Antibes, in the château of Cagnes,[5] in southeastern France. He was the son of Honoré IV Grimaldi, Marquis de Cagnes and Hélène-de-Orcel Plaisians, and belonged to the ancient nobility of France, descended from the House of Bourbon.[1]
Grimaldi became Vicar General of the Archbishop of Rouen. He was appointed bishop of Le Mans on 5 July 1767, after which he began a series of unpopular 'improvements', such as sweeping away the high altar and selling the Medieval and Renaissance silver without making an inventory of it.[6] A portrait painted by Charles-Étienne Gaucher[7] was hung in the vestry when he left Le Mans in 1777.[3]
On 16 October 1777, Pope Pius VI appointed Grimaldi as Bishop of Noyon;[8] he was also Count of Noyon.[2] Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was ordained to the priesthood by Grimaldi.[9] Years later, when Talleyrand was Bishop of Autun in Burgundy from November 1788, he was sworn in by Grimaldi under a papal order on 4 January 1789 as the Bishop of Noyon in the chapel of Saint-Sauveur de la Solitude, a retreat attached to the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Issy.[5][10] The diocese of Noyon was abolished 12 July 1790.[11]
In 1791, Louis Grimaldi refused the oath to the civil constitution of the clergy, and emigrated to England. He lived in London and the British government gave him a small pension until his death in London, 28 December 1804.[2][12]
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Bibliography
- Gimpel, Jean (1983), The Cathedral Builders, Harper & Row, ISBN 978-0-06-091158-4