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Albert de Gondi (en italien : Albèrto Gondi), 1 er duc de Retz, dit le « maréchal de Retz », est un diplomate et un militaire français d'origine italienne, connu pour avoir été l'un des principaux hommes de confiance de la reine de France Catherine de Médicis dans les années 1570.
Albert de Gondi, duc de Retz (4 November 1522 in Florence – 1602) seigneur du Perron, comte, then marquis de Belle-Isle (1573), duc de Retz (from 1581), was a marshal of France and a member of the Gondi family.
1 de dic. de 2014 · The Gondi were Florentine merchants and bankers who shifted the focal point of their activities from Italy to Lyon in the first part of the sixteenth century. They were part of a wave of Italian merchants and bankers that made Lyon an important center of European trade and banking.
- Henry Heller
- 2014
The Florentine Gondi family owed their spectacular rise at the French court of the sixteenth century to the patronage of Catherine de Medici. Their enemies were many and vocal. Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, detested Albert de Gondi: he was, wrote the memoirist, ‘sly, cunning, deceitful, corrupt, a great liar and dissimulator’.
- Catherine Fletcher
- 2015
Gondi Family, French family of Florentine origin, whose diplomats and bankers were prominent in France from the 16th century. The family established itself in France after gaining the confidence and patronage of Catherine de Médicis. Antoine II (1486–1560) was the first Gondi to settle in France.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Albert de Gondi (4 November 1522, Florence – 1602) seigneur du Perron, comte, then marquis de Belle-Isle (1573), duc de Retz (from 1581), was a marshal of France and a member of the Gondi family.
Antoine II’s oldest son, Albert (b. Nov. 4, 1522, Florence—d. April 21, 1602), went to the court of Henry II in 1547. Serving valiantly in several military campaigns, he took the part of the monarch during the Wars of Religion.
