CHÂTILLON DE COLIGNY, ODET DE

CHÂTILLON de COLIGNY, ODET de. - Cardinal, b. at Châtillon in 1523, of one of the foremost families of France, d. at Canterbury in 1568. At the age of eleven he was created cardinal, with the title of SS. Sergio e Bacco, by Clement VII at Marseilles. In 1534 he was appointed bishop of Beauvais, and then archbishop of Toulouse in 1535 under Paul III. He took part in the conclaves of Paul III and Julius III in 1550, and in the assembly of Poissy in 1561. He then embraced Calvinism and took up the profession of arms, whereupon Pius IV, in the secret Consistory of March 1563, declared him a heretic. In response, C., having resumed the purple he had laid aside, married Isabella de Hauteville (“Madame la cardinale”), with whom he was already living. To this the Pope replied in September 1563 by publishing his deposition. Exiled, he took refuge in England, with Queen Elizabeth.