Claude Pinart

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.
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