Guillaume Bochetel
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Guillaume Bochetel, seigneur de Sassy, Brouillamenon, Laforest-Thaumyer (died 1558) was a statesman and diplomat of the French Renaissance during the reigns of François I
and Henry II of France
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. The family had moved to Berry when his great grandfather had married Jean Bochetel, the sister of Jacques Cœur, then great financier of King Charles VII of France
. Bernardin Bochetel son of Catherine and Baboon, its paternal grandparents Francis and Marie Bochetel Pellorde.
He married Mary Morvilliers, Lady of the Sourdiere, and they had four children:
His four children have the same tutors that the royal children including the person of Jacques Amyot
and that of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples
.
In 1540 he bought Jean Courtois Breuilhamenon the lordship of the lands in Berry.
He died in 1558.
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On 27 July 1518, King Francis I of France appointed him of notary clerk of the king's chamber, where he distinguished himself by writing in February 1522 an ordinance dealing with the dispersal of territorial soldiers. In December 1529, the king asked him to accompany the Vicomte de Turenne in Spain to negotiate his third marriage to Eleanor of Austria, Charles V's sister, a widow of King Manuel I of Portugal
On 22 August 1530, the king appointed him secretary, of royal finances and entrusted the office of Secretary of royal finances and acts Royal two years later. In May 1535, he left with the Royal Admiral Philippe Chabot to Calais to negotiate with England. In 1537, he was sent by the king in Leucate to negotiate peace with the Emperor Charles V and accompanied the king during his trip to Piedmont in 1538.
On 29 September 1542, he was made Clerk of the Order of Saint Michael
. In 1546, he negotiated, concluded and signed the Treaty of Ardres with Henry VIII of England, signed on 7 June.
Francis I of France
Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...
and Henry II of France
Henry II of France
Henry II was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559.-Early years:Henry was born in the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, the son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany .His father was captured at the Battle of Pavia in 1525 by his sworn enemy,...
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Biography
He comes from a family of Champagne in ReimsReims
Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....
. The family had moved to Berry when his great grandfather had married Jean Bochetel, the sister of Jacques Cœur, then great financier of King Charles VII of France
Charles VII of France
Charles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent, the Duke of Bedford, ruled much of France including the capital, Paris...
. Bernardin Bochetel son of Catherine and Baboon, its paternal grandparents Francis and Marie Bochetel Pellorde.
He married Mary Morvilliers, Lady of the Sourdiere, and they had four children:
- Bernardin who became bishop of Rennes in 1558 and abbot of St. Lawrence Auxerrois
- Jacques who inherit titles and property of his father and become an outstanding diplomat
- Jeanne, who married in 1542 in Hawthorn Claude, Lord of Hauterives, Baron of Chateauneuf-sur-CherChâteauneuf-sur-CherChâteauneuf-sur-Cher is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.-Geography:An area of farming and forestry comprising a large village and several hamlets situated in the valley of the river Cher, some south of Bourges at the junction of the D940 with the D73, D35 and the...
and Secretary of State. [5] - Mary, who married Jacques Bourdin Secretary of State
His four children have the same tutors that the royal children including the person of Jacques Amyot
Jacques Amyot
Jacques Amyot , French Renaissance writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.He found his way to the University of Paris, where he supported himself by serving some of the richer students. He was nineteen when he became M.A. at Paris, and later he graduated doctor of civil law at...
and that of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples or Jacob Faber Stapulensis was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d’Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a...
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In 1540 he bought Jean Courtois Breuilhamenon the lordship of the lands in Berry.
He died in 1558.
Career
He began his career with the office of clerk of aid and gabelles in BerryBerry
The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Grapes are an example. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. They may have one or more carpels with a thin covering and fleshy interiors....
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On 27 July 1518, King Francis I of France appointed him of notary clerk of the king's chamber, where he distinguished himself by writing in February 1522 an ordinance dealing with the dispersal of territorial soldiers. In December 1529, the king asked him to accompany the Vicomte de Turenne in Spain to negotiate his third marriage to Eleanor of Austria, Charles V's sister, a widow of King Manuel I of Portugal
On 22 August 1530, the king appointed him secretary, of royal finances and entrusted the office of Secretary of royal finances and acts Royal two years later. In May 1535, he left with the Royal Admiral Philippe Chabot to Calais to negotiate with England. In 1537, he was sent by the king in Leucate to negotiate peace with the Emperor Charles V and accompanied the king during his trip to Piedmont in 1538.
On 29 September 1542, he was made Clerk of the Order of Saint Michael
Order of Saint Michael
The Order of Saint Michael was a French chivalric order, founded by Louis XI of France in 1469, in competitive response to the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece founded by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, Louis' chief competitor for the allegiance of the great houses of France, the Dukes of...
. In 1546, he negotiated, concluded and signed the Treaty of Ardres with Henry VIII of England, signed on 7 June.
Works
- Le sacre & coronement de la Royne imprime par commandemet du Roy nostre Sire, Éditeur Geoffroy Tory. Paris 1530. Bibliothèque de l’institut National d’Histoire de l’art. Collection Doucet. Cote inventaire NUM 8 Res 599.
- L’Entree de la Royne en sa ville & cité de Paris imprimee par le commadement du Roy nostre Sire, Éditeur Geoffroy Tory. Paris 1531. Bibliothèque de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’art. Collection Doucet. Coté inventaire NUM 8 Res 600.