Baume (Montrevel), CLAUDE DE LA, cardinal-archbishop of Besancon, was born in 1531. He had as vicargeneral Anthony Lulle, father of the famous Raymond Lulle of the Isle of Majorca. It was this Anthony Lulle who collected the synodal statutes of the diocese of Besancon, and published them under the title, Statuta Synodalia Bisosnt. Eccles. Metrop., cum Tractat. Summariis (Lyons, Rouille, 1560). Baume-Montrevel distinguished himself by his zeal against the Calvinists, whom he drove out of his diocese. His uncle, Peter de Baume, bishop of Geneva, driven from his see by the Calvinists, become cardinal-archbishop of Besancon. Claude de la Baume died June 15, 1584. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog, Gen., s.v.
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