[370] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 50.
[371] Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz and Strasbourg, and Abbot of St. Victor-lès-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 Würtemberg, 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 Français, 1607, P-228. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 437, 438.
[373] Mémoires, vol. vii. p. 7. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 417, 418.
[374] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 51.
[375] Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, who, after the decease of the Duc d'Orléans, married (in 1626) Gaston Jean Baptiste de France.
[376] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 51.
[377] Sully, Mém. vol. vii. p. 8.
[378] Sully, Mém. vol. vii. pp. 8, 9.
[379] Mercure Français, 1608, p. 231. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 444, 445.