| |
| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle |
 | | Philip II recommended his sister to refer all important affairs to a council of three, one of whom should be Granvelle. |
 | | Worldly and ostentatious, and more than once accused of laxity of morals, Granvelle possessed the qualities and defects of a prelate of the Renaissance, with a superiority of intellect and sense of his duties as a statesman which deserve respect. |
 | | His correspondence has been edited partly in France by Weiss, "Les papiers d'état de Granvelle" (9 vols., 4to, 1841-52), partly in Belgium, "La correspondence du cardinal Granvelle" (12 vols., 4to, 1878-96), the first three volumes by E. Poullet, the remainder by Ch. |
| www.newadvent.org /cathen/06727a.htm (821 words) |
|