Bertin de Mornay, granddoyen of Beauvais and abbe" of Saumur au Boz

Philippe de Mornay was born at Buhy, in the French Vexin on Nov. 5th 1549, two hours before the dawn, and was baptized the nth day of the same month. His father was Messire Jacques de Mornay, chevalier and lord of Buhy, and his mother was Dame Francoise de Bee Crespin, daughter of Messire Charles de Bee, 1 vice- admiral of France, and of Dame Madeleine de Beauvillier, daughter of the Count of Saint- Aignan and of Antoinette de la Tr^mouille. His godfathers were Messire Philippe de Roncherolles, baron of Heuqueville, and his paternal uncle, Messire Bertin de Mornay, granddoyen of Beauvais and abbe" of Saumur au Boz near Boulogne. His god- mothers were his maternal great-aunt, Madame Jehanne de Beauvillier, Lady of Puyset and of du Plessis Marly, and Dame de la Neuville, Lady of Morvillier. ... Now Philippe, after having been reared under the care of his foster-mother in his father's house up to the age of five, was placed in the charge of one Adrian, priest of Beauvais, so that he might be taught reading and writing and the rudiments of latin. At that time it was under consideration whether Philippe should enter the Church ; and this was all the more likely because Messire Bertin de Mornay, granddoyen of Beauvais and abbe of Saumur near Boulogne, who enjoyed over 20,000 livres in benefices, was very fond of the child and was willing to resign them all in his favour. But God, not wishing that Philippe should be plunged into idolatry, removed this temptation by the death of his uncle, the granddoyen, who died in his abbey of Saumur in October 1556. Feeling himself stricken with illness he sent for his brother, M. de Buhy, who went to his aid, but Mademoiselle de Buhy, his sister-in-law, could not go for she was then great with child. The granddoyen left his brother sole heir of all his patrimony and bequeathed to his nephew, Philippe de Mornay, all his property which was not entailed, both what he had inherited and what he had since acquired. He showed the greatest regret at dying before he had done all that he wished and intended to do for his brother and nephews. However M. de Buhy, on account of his grief at the approaching loss of a brother whom he dearly loved, would not allow a word to be said on the subject of the resignation of these benefices ; and the sick man himself neither remembered nor spoke of them in spite of the goodwill which he manifested up to his last moment for all his family, and more especially for Philippe de Mornay, who was the only person to whom he bequeathed anything. After his death the late M. de Lizy, Arch- bishop of Aries (of the house of Monjay), their cousin and very good friend, who had credit at the court, induced the late King Henri (II) to give all the grand- doyen's benefices to the late M. Disgue, chancellor to Queen Eleanor of Austria, 1 who was M. de Buhy's maternal uncle, and this he did in the hope that they would thus be secured to Philippe through him. But as M. Disgue was eighty years old M. d'Estrde, 2 grand- master of the artillery, immediately obtained a grant for their reversion from King Henri II, so that as M. Disgue died two years afterwards without resigning them in favour of his great-nephews they passed out of the Mornay family. Manifestly it was God in His mercy who so ordered things for, having later on come to a knowledge of the true religion, it would have been a great hindrance to that open profession of faith which, by God's help, they made.

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