er he accompanied
Louis XIII.

[370] Bassompierre, _Mem_. p. 50.

[371] Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz and Strasbourg, and
Abbot of St. Victor-les-Paris. The Cardinal de Givry succeeded him in
the see of Metz, having the Marquis de Verneuil as his coadjutor, and
Leopold of Austria replaced him as Bishop of Strasbourg, having been
elected to that dignity by the chapter; while the Protestants named
George, Margrave of Brandenburg, administrator to that see, which caused
great dissension between the two concurrents, until a conciliation was
effected through the good offices of Duke Frederic of Wuertemberg, who
induced them to enter into a truce for fifteen years, during which
period they divided between them the revenues of the benefice, Leopold
of Austria retaining the title of bishop.

[372] _Mercure Francais,_ 1607, P-228. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 437,
438.

[373] _Memoires,_ vol. vii. p. 7. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 417, 418.

[374] Bassompierre, _Mem_. p. 51.

[375] Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, who, after the
decease of the Duc d'Orleans, married (in 1626) Gaston Jean Baptiste
de France.

[376] Bassompierre, _Mem_. p. 51.

[377] Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. p. 8.

[378] Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. pp. 8, 9.

[379] _Mercure Francais_, 1608, p. 231. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 444,
445.

[380] Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. pp. 25-28.

[381] Perefixe, vol. ii. pp. 463, 464.

[382] Bassompierre, _Mem_. pp. 50, 51.

[383] Gaston Jean Baptiste de France, originally named Duc d'Anjou, and
subsequently Duc d'Orleans, died in 1660. Before his birth, Henri IV
declared his intention of making him a churchman, and causing him to be
entitled Cardinal de France.

[384] _Mercure Francais,_ 1608, p. 231. Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. p. 37.
L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 471.

[385] Mademoiselle de Mercocur was the only daughter and heiress of
Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duc de Mercocur, the brother of Louise de
Lorraine, Queen of Henri III. By that monarch he was appointed Governor
of Brittany, but in 1589 he revolted against him, and persisted in his
rebellion until 1598, when he entered into a treaty with Henri IV, by
which he bound himself to bestow the hand of his daughter, and the
reversion of his government, upon Cesar de Vendome, a condescension by
which he subsequently felt himself so much disgraced that he withdrew
from the Court and engaged in the war of Hungary. Pining, however, to
see once more his