GONDI, PIETRO. — Cardinal, born in Lyon in 1532, died in Paris on 17 February 1616. Court chaplain and chancellor of the diocese of Langres, where he was elected bishop in 1566; he was transferred to the see of Paris in 1569 and created cardinal by Sixtus V on 18 December 1587. He exercised his ministry as a pious and zealous pastor in troubled and difficult times (v. UOONOTTI), and, although not uninvolved in political activities (at the Colloquy of Poissy in 1561, in Rome in 1576 and 1585, and in the negotiations for the absolution of Henry IV), he devoted himself primarily to charitable assistance of the poor, especially during the siege of Paris in 1589.
BIBL.: Eubel, III, pp. 52, 226, 270; A. Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et S.R.E. cardinalium IV. Rome 1677, cols. 180–82; Pastor, IX, passim.