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PHILIPPE DE MORNAY (1549-1623)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORNAY (1549-1623)  , seigneur du Plessis-Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-See also:Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, See also:French See also:Protestant, was See also:born at Buhy in See also:Normandy on the 5th of See also:November 1549 . His See also:mother had leanings toward Protestantism, but his See also:father sought to counteract her See also:influence by sending him to the See also:College de See also:Lisieux at See also:Paris . On his father's See also:death in 1559, however, the See also:family formally adopted the reformed faith . Mornay studied See also:law and See also:jurisprudence at See also:Heidelberg in 1565 and the following See also:year See also:Hebrew and See also:German at See also:Padua . On the outbreak of the second religious See also:war in 1567, he joined the See also:army of See also:Conde, but a fall from his See also:horse prevented him from taking an active See also:part in the See also:campaign . His career as Huguenot apologist began in 1571 with the See also:work Dissertation sur l'eglise visible, and as diplomatist in 1572 when he under-took a confidential See also:mission for See also:Admiral de See also:Coligny to See also:William the Silent, See also:prince of See also:Orange . He escaped the St See also:Bartholomew See also:massacre by the aid of a See also:Catholic friend, and took See also:refuge in See also:England . Returning to See also:France towards the end of 1573, he participated during the next two years with various success in the See also:campaigns of See also:Henry of See also:Navarre . He was taken prisoner by the See also:duke of See also:Guise on the loth of See also:October 1575, but not being recognized was ransomed for a small sum . Shortly afterwards he married See also:Charlotte Arbaleste at See also:Sedan . Mornay was gradually recognized as the right-See also:hand See also:man of the See also:king of Navarre, whom he represented in England from 1577 to 1578 and again in 158o, and in the See also:Low Countries 1581-1582 . With the death of the duke of Aleneon-See also:Anjou in 1584, by which Henry of Navarre was brought within sight of the See also:throne of France, the See also:period of Mornay's greatest See also:political activity began, and after the death of the prince of Conde in 1588 his influence became so See also:great that he was popularly styled the Huguenot See also:pope .

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present at the See also:siege of See also:Dieppe, fought at Ivry, and was at the siege of See also:Rouen in 1591-92, until sent on a mission to the See also:court of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth . He was bitterly disappointed by Henry IV.'s See also:abjuration of Protestantism in 1593, and thenceforth gradually withdrew from the court and devoted himself to See also:writing . He founded in 1593 the Protestant See also:academy or university at See also:Saumur, which had a distinguished See also:history until its suppression by See also:Louis XIV. in 1683 . In 1598 he published a work on which he had See also:long been engaged, entitled De L'institution, usage et See also:doctrine du See also:saint sacrement de l'eucharistie en l'eglise ancienne, containing about 5000 citations from the scriptures, fathers and schoolmen . Jacques See also:Davy Du See also:Perron, See also:bishop of See also:Evreux, afterwards See also:cardinal and See also:archbishop of See also:Sens, accused him of misquoting at least 500, and a public disputation was held at See also:Fontainebleau on the 4th of May 1600 . Decision was awarded to Du Perron on nine points presented, when the disputation was interrupted by the illness of Mornay . His last years were saddened by the loss of his only son in 1605 and of his devoted wife in 16o6, and were marked only by perfecting the Huguenot organization . He was chosen a See also:deputy in 1618 to represent the French Protestants at the See also:synod of See also:Dort, and though prohibited from attending by Louis XIII., he contributed materially to its deliberations by written communications . He was deprived of the governorship of Saumur at the See also:time of the Huguenot insurrection in 1621, and died in retirement on his See also:estate of La Foret-sur-Sevre on the 11th of November 1623 . His See also:principal See also:works, in addition to De L'institution, usage et doctrine du saint sacrement de l'eucharistie en l'eglise ancienne (La Rochelle, 1598), mentioned above, are Excellent discours de la See also:vie et de la mort (See also:London, 1577), a bridal present to Charlotte Arbaleste; Traite de l'eglise oil l'on traite See also:des principales questions qui ont See also:gig mues sur ce point en nostre temps (London, 1578) ; Traite de la verite de la See also:religion chretienne contre See also:les athees, epicuriens, payens, juifs, mahometans et autres infideles (See also:Antwerp, 1581); Le mystere d'iniquite, c'est a dire, l'histoire de la papaute (See also:Geneva, 1611) . Two volumes of Memoires, from 1572 to 1589, appeared at La Foret (1624–1625), and a continuation in 2 vols. at See also:Amsterdam (1652); a more See also:complete but very inaccurate edition (Memoires, correspondances, et vie) in 12 vols. was published at Paris in 1624–1625 . See the See also:life of Mornay written by his wife for the instruction of their son, Memoires de Mme Duplessis-Mornay, vol. i. in the ed. of Memoires et correspondances de Duplessis-Mornay (Paris, 1824–1825) ; E. and E .

Haag, La France protestante, See also:

article " Mornay "; J . See also:Ambert, Du Plessis-Mornay (Paris, 1847) ; E . Stahelin, Der Ubertritt K . Heinrichs IV. von Frankreich zur katholischen Kirche (See also:Basel, 1856) ; See also:Weiss, Du Plessis Mornay comme theologien (See also:Strassburg, 1867) . There is a See also:good article " Du Plessis-Mornay " by T . Schott in Hauck's Realencyklopadie, and another by Grube in Kirchenlexikon .

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