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the cardinalate, Nicholas de Pelleve, had owed his appointment
as Bishop of Amiens, Archbishop of Sens, and lastly as
Archbishop of Rheims, to the favour of the French kings,
Henry II. and Charles IX. Under Paul IV. he had been sent
as envoy to Mary of Guise in Scotland, and had there done all
he could to save the Catholic religion.^ Pelleve 's zeal for the
Catholic faith, his theological learning, and his blameless life,^
clearly justified the honour now bestowed upon him.
Like France, Spain too was represented by two Cardinals
among the new creations. Of these, Gaspare de Zuniga
Avellaneda, the son of the Count of Mirandola, was a cousin
of the Spanish ambassador in Rome, who was much in the
favour of the Pope. He had distinguished himself for his
learning as professor of theology at Salamanca, and for the
way in which he had governed his dioceses as Bishop of Segovia
and Archbishop of Seville. Zuniga died before Pius V., on
February 2nd, 1571, at Jaen.^ Gaspare Cervantes had also
merited the red hat by the way he had discharged his
duties as Archbishop of Tarragona.* Like Pellev^, he had
taken part in the Council of Trent ; it is significant of his zeal
for the carrying out of the decrees of the Council that he im-
mediately afterwards held a diocesan synod, being at that
time Archbishop of Salerno, ^ and later on, at Tarragona,
established a seminary for boys. His friendship for the Jesuits
is another proof of his ecclesiastical views ; in 1574 he established
a noviciate for them at Tarragona, and when he had
to go to Rome in connexion with the case of Carranza, he
appointed a Jesuit, Alonso Roman, as visitor of his diocese.^
Like France and Spain, the east may be said to have been
the elevation of the two French subjects, the assurance is given
that there had never been a more trustworthy ambassador than
Rambouillet. Brevia Arm. 44, 6. 15, p. 115b, Papal Secret Archives.
1 Bellesheim, Scottland, L, 413.
2 CiACONius, III., 1041. Cardella, v., 125 seq.
' See Cardella, V., 123 seq.
* See ibid. 124.
*Laderchi, 1566, n. 182.
*AsTRAiN, III., 41 seq.