Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle


Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
Count of La Baume Saint-Amour
Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon
Portrait by Willem Key
ArchdioceseBesançon
Appointed25 June 1584
Term ended21 September 1586
Other post(s)Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1578-1586)
Previous post(s)Archbishop of Mechelen
(1561-1583)
Bishop of Arras (1538-1561)
Orders
Ordination1540
Consecration21 May 1542
by Juan Pardo de Tavera
Created cardinal26 February 1561
by Pius IV
RankCardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born20 August 1517
Died21 September 1586 (aged 69)
Madrid, Kingdom of Spain
MottoDurate
SignatureAntoine Perrenot de Granvelle Count of La Baume Saint-Amour's signature
Coat of armsAntoine Perrenot de Granvelle Count of La Baume Saint-Amour's coat of arms
Granvelle, portrait by Frans Floris
Medal of the cardinal by Jacques Jonghelinck
Tomb in Mechelen Cathedral

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century".[1] He was also a notable art collector, the "greatest private collector of his time, the friend and patron of Titian and Leoni and many other artists".[1]

  1. ^ a b Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Princes and Artists, Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts 1517–1633, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, p. 112