Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles

Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Noailles (gules, a bend or).

Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles (4 September 1504–11 March 1562) became admiral of France, and was ambassador in England during three important years, 1553–1556, maintaining a gallant but unsuccessful rivalry with the Spanish ambassador, Simon Renard.^[1]

Antoine was the eldest of three brothers who served as French diplomats, three of the 19 children of Louis de Noailles and Catherine de Pierre-Buffière.^[2]

His career started at the age of 25 with a trip with Francis de la Tour, Viscount of Turenne, to Spain to arrange the marriage of Francis I of France with Eleanor of Austria, and he signed the final marriage contract. He then helped in the Italian wars and two missions to Scotland in 1548.^[3]

His brothers Gilles and François were clergymen.^[4] His wife was Jeanne de Gontaut, who following his death, became a lady-in-waiting to Catherine de Medici.

Notes

1. Chisholm 1911, p. 722.
2. Sainte-Marie 1868, p. 747-9.
3. Vertot 1763, pp. 10-11.
4. Teulet 1862, pp. viii-ix.

References

• Sainte-Marie, Simplicien Anselme de (1868). Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne et de la maison du roy... Paris: Firmin Didot frères, fils et Cie. pp. 747–9.
• Teulet, JB Alexandre, ed. (1862). Relations Politiques de la France Et de L'Espagne Avec L'Ecosse Au XVIe Siècle: Correspondances Françaises 1515-1603 1. Paris. pp. viii–ix.
• Vertot, Abbé de, ed. (1763). Ambassades de Messieurs de Noailles en Angleterre 1. Leyden.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Noailles". Encyclopædia Britannica 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 722, 723.