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LORRAINE. LÉOPOLD Ier (1679-1729) duc de Lorraine et de Bar.
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LORRAINE. LEOPOLD I (1679-1729) duke of Lorraine and Bar.
L.A.S., Nancy 19 February 1700, to Monseigneur [LOUIS XIV]| 3 pages fol.
Beautiful letter from the young duke of Lorraine to the King of France, who had returned his duchies to him at the end of 1697 under the Treaty of Ryswick (and whose niece, Elisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans, he married in 1698). He denounces the contestation of edicts considered by the bishop of Toul as contrary to the jurisdiction and authority of the Church.
"All the ordinaries bring me some new grace from Your
Majesty, in his discussion of my affairs and it is not without real pain that I learn that the pretensions of Mr levesque de Toul could cause some interruption to his goodness.
I assure Your Majesty that I have nothing so much at heart as to establish as much as I can the service and worship of God in my states, and that my first concern will always be to see that it is exercised with the decency and rule which is due, and that I will never oppose the legitimate rights of the bishops such as they have been in practice in the past and such as Your Majesty herself is willing to observe with regard to her neighboring foreign states. I hold all that I have of your Majesty's sovereignty, I owe it to him| and I am not master of abandoning it to the essential infringements that the pretensions of Mongr Levesque de Toul give| I beg your Majesty to maintain me in the peaceful enjoyment of his benefits, and of the sovereign rights which have been for so long in my house. To this end, there is nothing that I am not ready to do to advance divine worship and to convince Your Majesty of the submissive deference I have for his wills"...
L.A.S., Nancy 19 February 1700, to Monseigneur [LOUIS XIV]| 3 pages fol.
Beautiful letter from the young duke of Lorraine to the King of France, who had returned his duchies to him at the end of 1697 under the Treaty of Ryswick (and whose niece, Elisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans, he married in 1698). He denounces the contestation of edicts considered by the bishop of Toul as contrary to the jurisdiction and authority of the Church.
"All the ordinaries bring me some new grace from Your
Majesty, in his discussion of my affairs and it is not without real pain that I learn that the pretensions of Mr levesque de Toul could cause some interruption to his goodness.
I assure Your Majesty that I have nothing so much at heart as to establish as much as I can the service and worship of God in my states, and that my first concern will always be to see that it is exercised with the decency and rule which is due, and that I will never oppose the legitimate rights of the bishops such as they have been in practice in the past and such as Your Majesty herself is willing to observe with regard to her neighboring foreign states. I hold all that I have of your Majesty's sovereignty, I owe it to him| and I am not master of abandoning it to the essential infringements that the pretensions of Mongr Levesque de Toul give| I beg your Majesty to maintain me in the peaceful enjoyment of his benefits, and of the sovereign rights which have been for so long in my house. To this end, there is nothing that I am not ready to do to advance divine worship and to convince Your Majesty of the submissive deference I have for his wills"...