Claude de La Baume (1534–1584) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
[1] He then traveled to Rome together with Antoine Lullo, his vicar general to pay the visit ad limina Apostolorum.
[1] On 4 June 1570, he was consecrated as a bishop in the Sistine Chapel by Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg assisted by Antonio Elio, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Galeazzo Gegald, Bishop Emeritus of Bagnoregio.
[1] He was opposed to the spread of Calvinism in his diocese, defeating a Calvinist force in 1575, preventing the fall of Burgundy to the Huguenots.
[1] Philip II of Spain named him secretary of memorials, counselor of the ecclesiastical department and viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples, but he died before taking up the post.