Claude II de l'Aubespine

Claude II de l’Aubespine, seigneur de Hauterive, baron of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire (1544 – 11 September 1570) was a French diplomat, and Secretary of State. He 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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