[148] Henri, Duc de Luxembourg-Piney, was a descendant of the celebrated Comte de Saint-Pol, and the last male representative of his family. He died in 1616, leaving one daughter, Marguerite Catherine de Luxembourg, who married the Comte Charles Henri de Clermont-Tonnerre, and became the mother of Madeleine, wife of François de Montmorency, commonly known in history as the Maréchal de Luxembourg.
[149] Pierre de Gondy, Bishop of Langres, and subsequently first Archbishop of Paris, who was created a Cardinal by Sixtus V in 1587. He died in the French capital in 1616, in his eighty-fourth year.
[150] Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. ii. pp. 697-700.
[151] Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 153, 154. Mercure Français, 1612.
[152] Cosmo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, succeeded his father Ferdinand in 1609. He was a Prince of liberal and peaceful sentiments, and greatly endeared himself to his subjects. He married Marie Madeleine, Archduchess of Austria, sister of the Queen of Spain and the Duchess of Savoy; and died in 1621, leaving his duchy to his elder son, Ferdinand II.
[153] Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. ii. pp. 647-654.
[154] Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 39, 40. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 160. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 398.
[155] Matthieu, Hist. des Derniers Troubles, book iii. p. 474.
[156] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 80.
[157] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 161. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 80.