Claude Pinart, seigneur de Comblisy and Crambailles (died 15 September 1605 in the Château de Cremailles) was a Secretary of State under the French king Henry III, from 13 September 1570 until ordered to retire on 8 September 1588.[1] He was also baron of Cremailles and Malines and the first baron of Valois.

Biography

He was the son of François, seigneur de Molines. He married Marie de L'Aubespine (d. 5 June 1591), daughter of Gilles de l'Aubespine, and cousin of Claude II de l’Aubespine on 13 February 1583.[2] They had a son Henri Claude Pinart, Marquis de Louvois, Vicomte de Comblizy, and a daughter Madeleine (d. 6 April 1654 in Paris), who married Charles de Prunelé, Baron d'Esneval in 1583.

He was close to Catherine de' Medici, and accompanied her in 1578 and 1579.[3]

In 1575, he visited Sweden for the negotiations of a possible marriage between Henry III and Princess Elizabeth of Sweden. He visited England as part of an embassy to Elizabeth I in April 1581.[4]

He was succeeded by Louis de Revol in 1588 and, after he became retired, he was installed as military governor along with a family from Château-Thierry.

References

  1. ^ Charles Hélion Marie le Gendre Luçay (comte de) (1881). Des origines du pouvoir ministériel en France: les secrétaires d'état depuis leur institution jusqu'à la mort de Louis XV (in French). Librairie de la Société bibliographique.
  2. ^ Hélène Michaud (1962). "Les registres de Claude Pinart, secrétaire d'État (1570-1588)". Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes (in French). 120: 135. doi:10.3406/bec.1962.449638.
  3. ^ John Hearsey McMillan Salmon (1979). Society in crisis: France in the sixteenth century. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-416-73050-0.
  4. ^ Susan Doran (1996). Monarchy and matrimony: the courtships of Elizabeth I. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11969-6.
Political offices Preceded byClaude II de l’Aubespine Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1570–1588 Succeeded byLouis de Revol
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