Jérôme Groslot, Sieur de l’Isle (died 1622) was a French diplomat.
His father, also Jérôme Groslot (1520-1572), was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris. He came to Scotland and was brought up with the young James VI at Stirling Castle.[1] In Scotland, Jérôme Groslot was sometimes known as "the son of the Baillie of Orleans".[2] His sister Louise married Samuel Puchot de Bertreuille in 1601.
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He returned to France in 1581 and George Buchanan, his former tutor, wrote to Theodore Beza on his behalf. He visited Oxford and Cambridge universities with Paulus Melissus.[3]
Jérôme Groslot was sent to Scotland in April 1589 to advocate the marriage of James VI to Catherine de Bourbon, sister of Henry of Navarre.[4] An English observer at the Scottish court Thomas Fowler wrote that François de Civille and Jérôme Groslot encouraged Edinburgh merchants who dealt with France to support the Navarre marriage.[5]
John Colville wrote to the Laird of Wemyss that James VI was set on the Danish marriage and l'Isle's efforts were likely to be in vain.[6] When he left in July James VI gave him 200 French crowns to fund his journey to Navarre with James's answers.[7]
He died in 1622.[8]
References
edit- ^ Alexander Courtney, James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566–1603 (Routledge, 2024), p. 105.
- ^ David Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France: Refugees naturalized before 1681, vol. 1 (1886), p. 104.
- ^ David Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France: Refugees naturalized before 1681, vol. 1 (1886), p. 257.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 37, 49.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 97.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1589-1593, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 49.
- ^ H. Aubert, Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze: 1575, XVI (Geneva, 1993), pp. 189-191: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 37, 116: Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588-1596', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 23, 57, 59, 63.
- ^ Natasha Constantinidou, Responses to Religious Division (Leiden, 2017), p. 63.