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He married Chretienne d'Aguirre, the daughter of Michel d'Aguirre, a celebrated jurisconsult of the diocese of Pampeluna, was created Lieutenant-Governor of Burgundy, and died in 1633. [297] Bassompierre, _Mem_.p.
43. [298] _Idem_. [299] Ippolito Aldobrandini, subsequently Clement VIII, was a Florentine by birth, who, in the year 1585, was made Grand Penitentiary and Cardinal by Pope Sixtus V.His diplomatic talents caused him to be sent as legate to Poland to arrange the difficulties between Sigismund of Sweden and the Archduke Maximilian, who had both been elected King of Poland by their several partisans.
On the death of Innocent IX, Aldobrandini was raised to the pontifical chair (1592), which he occupied during thirteen years. [300] Camillo Borghese was a native of Rome, whose family were originally from Sienna.
Clement VIII called him to a seat in the conclave in 1598.
After his elevation to the pontifical chair he quarrelled with the republic of Venice, the result of the difference between the two states being the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Venetian territories.
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