List of ambassadors of France to England

This is a list of French ambassadors to England. Note that during much of this period there was no set ambassador, with frequent periods of lagging relations.[1]

French diplomats to the Kingdom of England

Image From Until Ambassadors
15261535Charles de Solier, comte de Morette[2]
15351537Antoine de Castelnau[3]
15371538Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon[4]
15381543Charles de Marillac[5]
15431546Aymar Chaste[6]
15461548Odet de Selve[7]
15531556Antoine de Noailles, 1st comte de Noailles[8]
15561557François de Noailles[8]
15581559Gilles de Noailles[a][8]
15601562Michel de Sèvre[b][8]
15621566Paul de Foix de Carmain[9]
15661568Jacques Bochetel de la Forest[8]
15681574Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon[8]
15741584Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissiére[8]
15851589Guillaume de l'Aubespine de Châteauneuf[8]
15891592Aymar Chaste[c][10]
16021605Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont[8]
16061613Antoine Lefèvre de la Boderie[8]
16111615Samuel Spifame, Sieur des Bisseaux[11]
16151618Gaspard Dauvet, Sieur des Marets[11]
16181621Honoré d'Albret de Cadenet[12]
16251625Jean de Varigniez, Sieur de Blainville[13]
16261627François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France[13]
16291630Charles de L'Aubespine, Marquis of Châteauneuf[13]
16301633François du Val de Fontenay-Mareuil, Marquis of Fontenay Mareuil[13]
16331635Jean d'Angennes, Marquis de Poygni[13]
16351637Henri I de Saint-Nectaire
16371640Pompone de Bellièvre
16401641Jean de Montereul[13]
16411643Jacques d'Estampes de La Ferté-Imbert
16451650Jean de Montereul[13]
16521660Antoine de Bordeaux, seigneur de Neufville[13]
16611662Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades[13]
16621665François de Comminges[13]
16651668Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Verneuil[13]
16681674Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy[d][13]
16741677Henri de Massue, 1st Marquis de Rouvigny[13]
16771688Paul Barillon[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ As French agent.
  2. ↑ As Ambassador Extraordinary.
  3. ↑ Due to the War of the Three Henrys and "the disputed succession after the assassination of King Henry III in 1589 it is difficult to follow exactly the French Resident Amabassadors in England from this date onwards."[8]
  4. ↑ M. Colbert initially served only as a spy, since M. Rouvigny was not trusted by the French court; hence the overlap.

References

  1. ↑ Richardson, Glenn (2008). The Contending Kingdoms: England and France 1420-1700.
  2. ↑ Hervey, Mary Frederica Sophia (1900). Holbein's "Ambassadors": The Picture and the Men : an Historical Study. Bell and Son. p. 43. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  3. ↑ Guy, John; Fox, Julia (24 October 2023). Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe. HarperCollins. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-06-307345-6. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  4. ↑ Lyons, Mary Ann (2015). Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-86193-333-4. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  5. ↑ Smith, Frederick E. (2022). Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England: Mobility, Exile, and Counter-reformation, 1530-1580. Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-19-286599-1. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Murdoch, Beamish (1865). A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie. J. Barnes. p. 12. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  7. ↑ Caldwell, David; Oleksy, Vicky; Rhodes, Bess (27 July 2023). The Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England. Oxbow Books. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-78925-974-2. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ward, Bernard Mordaunt (1928). The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604: From Contemporary Documents. J. Murray. p. 381. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  9. ↑ Levin, Carole (23 April 2022). The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society. Springer Nature. p. 118. ISBN 978-3-030-93009-7. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  10. ↑ Stedall, Robert (30 June 2022). Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites & Her Fighting Men. Pen and Sword History. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-3990-8318-8. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  11. 1 2 Fernández, Óscar Alfredo Ruiz (12 December 2019). England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations 1604-25. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-350-13343-3. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  12. ↑ Manuscripts, British Museum Department of (1895). Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum: Text. 1895. Order of the Trustees. p. 240. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Catalogue of French Ambassadors to England". The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]: 487, 608–610. 1840. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
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