Claude III de l'Aubespine

Claude III de l’Aubespine, seigneur de Hauterive, baron of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire (1544 – 11 September 1570) was a French diplomat, and Secretary of State. His father, Claude II de l'Aubespine was a key negotiator in the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559).[1]

Life

From the L'Aubespine family of merchants and lawyers in the upper Loire valley in Burgundy, he was the brother of Sébastien de L'Aubespine. His brother-in-law was Jacques Bourdin, seigneur de Villeines, and uncle was Jean de Morvilliers. His son-in-law was Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy.[2] He married Marie Clutin d'Oisel, a daughter of Henri Cleutin.

Sources

  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. Librairie de la Société bibliographique.
  2. Euan K. Cameron (2006). The Sixteenth Century (Short Oxford History of Europe). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-873189-4.
Political offices
Preceded by
Jacques Bourdin
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1567–1570
Succeeded by
Claude Pinart
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