Cardinal Guise to hold in the local prison, without any further punishment. The most severe punishment the Parlement gave to a member of his diocese was a combination of banishment, confiscation of property and several days of public flogging. No suspected heretics in his diocese were killed in the chambre ardente during his tenure. He was transferred to the see of Albi on 27 June 1550. After ceasing to be bishop of Albi in 1561, he was granted a pension of 10,000 livres. He maintained this pension through the next three bishops that succeeded him to the post, at the end of his life in 1578 Guilio de Medici was fruitlessly trying to get the Pope to cancel it. Alongside these revenues, he received 6000 livres from Condom and half of the revenues of Sens. This was despite the fact he had never served as bishop of Condom or Sens. Guise was created cardinal by Pope Julius III on 22 December 1553. Italian wars During the 1554 campaign season of the Italian Wars, the French achieved a surprise victory at the Battle of Renty, the king personally witnessed the battle from nearby, in the company of the Cardinal Guise. Shortly thereafter the spoils of the battle were presented to him. By 1558, the Guise rival for political authority was a prisoner of the Spanish, and they enjoyed the fruits, a marriage secured between their niece and the dauphin. At the festivities, the Cardinals Bourbon, Lorraine, Guise, Sens, Meudon and Lenoncourt proceeded the dauphin who was brought forth by Navarre. Reign of Charles IX Sens Cardinal Guise was relieved of his authority over Albi in 1561, as it was felt that he lacked the energy to sufficiently prosecute a war against heresy in his diocese. He was replaced by Lorenzo Strozzi, who had called royal troops in to crush suspected heretics in his previous residence at Béziers. He received the archbishopric of Sens on 9 May 1561 but resigned it in 1562 to Cardinal de Pellevée. During Cardinal Guise's tenure as Archbishop of Sens, the Protestants of the town were massacred by militant elements of the populace in April 1562. With his departure from Sens, he retired from active involvement in the episcopacy. Saverne In February 1562, he travelled to Saverne to meet with the Duke of Württemberg, along with his brothers the Duke of Guise, Lorraine and the Grand Prior.