Claude de l'Aubespine, baron de Châteauneuf

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Claude II de l’Aubespine, seigneur de Hauterive et de la Forêt-Thaumieres, baron of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. (1510 – 11 November 1567) was a French diplomat, and Secretary of State.

Claude II de l’Aubespine
Preceded byUnknown
Succeeded byNicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy
Secretary of State for the Navy
In office
1 April 1547 – 1567
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
1 April 1547 – 1567
Personal details
Born1510
Died11 November 1567
NationalityFrench
OccupationDiplomat, Secretary of State
Letter of Francis I to the Ottoman Drogman Janus Bey, 28 December 1546, delivered by D'Aramon. The letter is countersigned by the State Secretary Claude de L'Aubespine (bottom right corner).

Life edit

From 1537 until 1567 he was one of the four Secretaries of State (ministers managing the government). He was one of the plenipotentiary of France to the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian War of 1551–1559.[1]

He served as secretary of state to kings Francis I, Henry II, Francis II and Charles IX.

He was associated with the Assembly of Notables at Fontainebleau, where he produced an edict of tolerance for reforms (1560) and the "reddition de Bourges" (1562).

Family edit

Claude de l'Aubespine married Jeanne Bochetel, a daughter of the diplomat Guillaume Bochetel. Her brother Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, was a diplomat in London in the 1560s.[2] Their children included:

Sources edit

  1. ^ Frances Gardiner Davenport; Charles O. Paullin, eds. (2004). European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-58477-422-8.
  2. ^ Estelle Paranque, Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), p. 12.
  3. ^ William Barclay Turnbull, Letters of Mary Scots (London, 1845), pp. 344-363.
  4. ^ Estelle Paranque, Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 13-14.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French). {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Political offices
Preceded by
unknown
Secretary of State for the Navy
1 April 1547–1567
Succeeded by
Preceded by
unknown
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1 April 1547–1567
Succeeded by