Amanieu d'Albret [SEP] position held
Amanieu d'Albret
Amanieu d'Albret (1478 - 1520) (called the Cardinal d'Albret) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal.
Biography.
Amanieu d'Albret was born in the Kingdom of France ca. 1478, the son of Alain I of Albret, and Frances, Countess of Périgord. His older brother Jean married Catherine of Navarre. His uncle Louis d'Albret was also a cardinal. He had three illegitimate children, one son and two daughters.
Early in his career, he became a protonotary apostolic. He was also
Amanieu" who was better known as the "Chevalier d'Albret". The latter never married and was killed in a duel by "Mr. Saint-Léger Corbon" and Ambleville passed to the house of Pons represented by "Charles Amanieu" the Marquis d'Albret who was his nephew. He shot himself on 5 August 1678 and his widow remarried to Charles, Viscount of Marsan who was the youngest son of the Count of Harcourt. She left all her property to her second husband whose second wife was "Thérèse de Goyon-Matignon