Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

His Eminence

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
Count of La Baume Saint-Amour
His Eminence; Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle; Count of La Baume Saint-Amour
Cardinal, Archbishop of Besançon
	Portrait by Willem Key
Archdiocese	Besançon
Appointed	25 June 1584
Term ended	21 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
Ordination	1540
Consecration	21 May 1542; by Juan Pardo de Tavera
Created cardinal	26 February 1561; by Pius IV
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	20 August 1517; Ornans, Besançon, Holy Roman Empire
Died	21 September 1586 (aged 69); Madrid, Kingdom of Spain
Motto	Durate
Signature
Coat of arms

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]

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

[Trevor-Roper,_Hugh_1976,_p.112-1] Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Princes and Artists, Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts 1517–1633, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, p. 112

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