Robert de Lenoncourt (cardinal)
Robert II de Lenoncourt (also Lenoncourt; * unknown; † February 4, 1561 in the castle Régennes at Appoigny ) was a French cardinal and archbishop.
For one of the four leading families of Lorraine to arise, he was the second son of Thierri de Lenoncourt († January 20, 1514 in Paris ) and of Jeanne de Ville- sur- Illon († February 3, 1525 at Vitry ), nephew of the Bishop of Tours (1484-1509) and Archbishop of Reims (1509-1532) Robert de Lenoncourt and uncle of Cardinal Philippe de Lenoncourt.
Robert was 1516 Prior of Saint- Pourçain 1523 Abbot of Saint- Remi in Reims, in 1530 abbot of Saint -Philbert in Tournus and was appointed on 10 May 1535 Bishop of Chalons- sur -Marne, where he 30th to May 1550 worked. Already on December 20, 1538 he was appointed by Pope Paul III. cardinal. He participated in the conclaves 1549-1550, 1555 and 1559.
His second bishopric was Metz (April 22, 1551 - December 16, 1555 ). He tried to move the seat of the diocese back to the city and became the all- master of the city. Against the will of the citizens he failed to do so, that he called the French Army on April 10, 1552 against the city of Metz to help. He penetrated into the town and took possession of the archives and the city regiment. The city of Republic of Metz was history. De Lenoncourt now planned to remain in control of the city with the help of the French occupation, but the bill had not made the French king, who had occupied the entire diocese of Metz by the Marshal de Vieilleville. Robert now placed himself under the protection of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and was last resigned the bishopric of Metz lost with the Archdiocese of Embrun ( March 23, 1556 - February 7 1560). However, he never went into this diocese, but was in the same year the diocese of Auxerre ( October 4, 1556 - February 7, 1560 ), even here there is little trace of its existence. In 1560 he renounced Auxerre favor of his nephew Philippe de Lenoncourt and was named instead as Archbishop of Arles (February 7, 1560 - February 4, 1561 ), also a cardinal bishop of Sabina (13 March 1560 - February 4, 1561 ) and Administrator of the Archdiocese of Toulouse (13 March 1560 - February 4, 1561 ).
On February 4, 1561 he died at the Castle of Régennes and was buried in his priory of La Charité -sur -Loire. Already in the following year, the tomb was broken up and desecrated the corpse.