Beaune, Renaud de
Beaune, Renaud de
A French Bishop, b. in 1527, at Tours; d. 1606 in Paris. Before entering the ecclesiastical state he held secular positions such as Councillor of Parliament and Chancellor of Francis of Valois, Duke of Touraine. The royal court greatly favoured him and appointed him to numerous ecclesiastical offices. In 1568, he became Bishop of Mende and in 1581, Archbishop of Bourges. King Henry IV of France named him his grand almoner in 1591 and appointed him to the Archbishopric of Sens in 1595; but the pope did not confirm the appointment until 1602. He was a member of the commission instituted by Henry IV in 1600 to reform the University of Paris. By his contemporaries, Renaud de Beaune was considered one of the greatest orators of the time. Posterity rated his work for the pacification of France higher than his oratorical talent. It was his influence that led to the successful issue of the conference of Suresnes, near Paris, in 1593. He promised the conversion of Henry IV and brought about peace between the latter and the “League”. He received the abjuration of the king, and, although the absolution of an excommunicated prince was reserved to the pope, absolved him, July, 1593, on condition, however, that the approval of the Roman authorities should be obtained. In spite of this condition the absolution was invalid, and the action of the archbishop caused, at least partly, the delay in obtaining the papal confirmation of his nomination to the See of Sens. The principal works of de Beaune are: (1) Some discourses, among them funeral orations on Mary, Queen of Scots (1587), and on Queen Catharine de Medici (1589); (2) translation of the Psalms of David into French (Paris, 1575, 1637); (3) “La reformation de l’université de Paris (1605, 1667).
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Chalmel, Histoire de Touraine (Paris, 1828), IV, 29-32; Gautier in Grande Encyc., V, 1054.
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Beaune, Renaud de
a French prelate, son of baron de Samblanmay, was born at Tours in 1527. He was chancellor of the duke of Alencon; but he afterwards chose the ecclesiastical profession, and was appointed successively bishop of Mende, archbishop of Bourges, and then, in 1596, of Sens. Clement VIII, irritated that this prelate had justified Henry IV, and that he had proposed to create a patriarch in France, obliged him to wait six years for his bulls. De Beaune firmly maintained the rights of France on allo ccasions, before the assembly of the clergy, before the states of Blois, where he presided in 1588, and especially at the conference of Surine, when he announced that Henry IV had decided to make abjuration. Renaucu de Beaune became grand- almoner of France, and commander of the orders of the king. He died in 1606. He wrote Decreta Concilii Provincialis Bituricensis: Discours dans Assemblee du Clerge (1605): Oraison Funebre de Marie Stuart (1573): Sermon Funebre srur la Mort du Due d’Aijou, Frere de Henri III (1584): Haciangue dans les Etats de Blois: Reformation de l’ Universite de Paris (Paris, 1601-67). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog Gen., s.v.