Everything about Nicholas Ii Duke Of Lorraine totally explained
Nicholas II (
December 12 1612 –
January 25 1670), was
Duke of Lorraine and
Duke of Bar between
1634 and
1661, when he abdicated for his brother.
Nicholas François de Lorraine-Vaudemont was the youngest son of duke
Francis II of Lorraine, and as it appeared unlikely that he'd succeed to the duchy, he was destined to the church. He was made coadjutor
bishop of Toul, in spite of his youth, in 1619 and succeeded to the see in 1624, but never actually received any sacred orders. He studied at the University of
Pont-à-Mousson, 1622—1629 towards doctorates in philosophy and theology. He returned to
Nancy in June 1629. The thesis he prepared on the sacrament of penance was printed in Holland in 1627 with a dedication to
Pope Urban VIII. After his promotion to the cardinalate, received private lessons from two Jesuit priests.
Nicholas was named abbot
in commendam — a lucrative sinecure — of several abbeys and was sent on several embassies by his brother,
Charles IV, duke of Lorraine and Bar and by
Louis XIII.
He was created cardinal
January 19,
1626, but reserved
in pectore and not published until
August 30,
1627. He never received the
red hat and the cardinal-deaconry. When in 1634 his brother Charles was pressured into resigning his estates in his favor, and he became duke of Lorraine, he wrote to
Urban VIII,
March 4,
1634, resigning the cardinalate for having married his cousin Claude Françoise de Lorraine, the second daughter of
Henri, duke of Lorraine and Bar, on February 17-18. On
March 8,
1634, the pope declared him
in nullo e sacris ordinis constitutum, depriving him of the cardinalate and the administration of the diocese of Toul. In the consistory of
March 22,
1634, the pope communicated the news to the cardinals.
In
1661 he himself abdicated the throne, making way again for his older brother,
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine.
His children:
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- Ferdinand Philippe Joseph François Ignace Dominique Gaspard de Lorraine (1639–1659), styled prince Ferdinand de Lorraine.
Charles Léopold Nicolas Sixte de Lorraine (1643–1690), duke of Lorraine and Bar, 1675–1690.
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