Hyacinthe Serroni

Hyacinthe Serroni (30 August 1617, Rome – 7 January 1687, Paris) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, and steward of the Navy for the kingdom of France.

After five years in the service of the bishop, the King appointed him superintendent of the navy and the province of Provence, and latter Catalonia until the truce between France and Spain.

In 1660, he was appointed with Pierre de Marca, Archbishop of Toulouse, to participate in the Conference of Ceret which was to set the boundaries between France and Spain, but which separated without concluding.

To ensure the quality of his local clergy, Serroni established a seminary, in 1679, in a house on Bout-du-Pont in Albi.

[6] The original painting is now in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi,[7] It formed the basis for an engraving by Frans Ertinger (Schwaben, 1640 - Paris, 1710) (Inv.