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Cardinal Richelieu - New World Encyclopedia. Cardinal Richelieu was the French chief minister from 1624 until his death. Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (September 9, 1585 – December 4, 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607, he later entered politics ...
Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal and duke de Richelieu, (born Sept. 9, 1585, Richelieu, Poitou, France—died Dec. 4, 1642, Paris), French statesman and chief minister to Louis XIII. Born to a minor noble family, he was ordained a priest in 1607 and became bishop of Luçon.
Aug 25, 2021 · Late-19th and early-20th-century scholarly consensus viewed Richelieu as a “great man” who, during his period as first minister between 1624 and 1642, transformed a kingdom on the verge of collapse after decades of civil and religious war into a unified nation and leading power on the European stage.
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church. He became known as l'Éminence rouge, or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the title "Eminence" applied to cardinals and from the red robes that they customarily wear.
Oct 20, 2002 · Armand Jean du Plessis, le cardinal-duc de Richelieu, was the brilliant and ruthless prime minister of France from 1624 until his death at 57 in 1642.
Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu - French Minister, Diplomat, Statesman: In 1624 another crisis, over the Valtellina in northern Italy, led to a ministerial reconstruction and to the cardinal’s appointment as secretary of state for commerce and marine and chief of the royal council.
RICHELIEU, ARMAND-JEAN DU PLESSIS, CARDINAL (1585 – 1642), French ecclesiastical and political figure. Richelieu was the youngest son of a middle-ranking noble family from Poitou, whose father enjoyed short-lived prominence as grand provost of France under Henry III (ruled 1574 – 1589), but whose early death and bankruptcy (1590) spelled ...
