Charles de Marillac, Sgr De St Genes, French ambassador, Archbishop of Vienne

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A Barrister at the parliament in Paris at age 24.

Secretary to and then the ambassador to Constantinople 1534 to 1538.

Ambassador to England 1539 to 1543

Maitre des Requets 1541

Ambassador to the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire

Conseiller clerk in the parliament of Paris in 1547.

Member off the conseil prive deu Roi Henrt II (Privy counsel to the king)

Deputy to the assembly of notables at Fontainbleau Aug 1560

During his diplomatic trips the Germany, he learnt, in Augsburg, a new method of minting coins, a technique in which he played a role, in bringing back to France, in 1550-1.

Abbot of St Pere les Melun, where he was buried

Bishop of Vannes and count of Vienne

Also abbot of St Pere Les Melun

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During the time when he served as ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire, (being in Brussels at the Court of Charles V) and at the Diet of Augsburg in 1559 and elsewhere, he often helped to negotiate important treaties such as Marcq-en-Baroeul 1555 which brought temporary peace between France and the HR Empire.

Early in his career he had been supported by the Constable of Montmorency, but he prudently courted the Duke Francois de Guise, who's support aided him in both of his promotions at the end of 1556.

However, becoming alarmed at the political and religeous excesses of the Guises during that family's domination of the young Francis II (1559 to 1560) Charles spoke out vigorously at the assembly of notables at Fontainbleau in Aug 1560.

He urged the calling of the estates General saying the King has nothing to fear from its meeting, and he appealed for a reduction in taxes. On the same occasion, he argued in favour of calling a national church council to undertake religeous reform in France and asserted that acts of violence served no proper religeous goal.
His reward was exile to the Abbey of Melun where he died a few months later. His epitaph is there to be seen today.

( La Vie p23. It was rumoured that Charles, in his youth, was becoming "Infecte de l'Heresie de Calvin" and these suspicions were strong enough to cause his departure for Constantinople. Interesting in this regard, one of Charles' brothers, Pierre de Marillac, Abbe de Pontigny converted to Calvinism at age 40 and was exiled to Geneva in 1550 where he married.)

He was a good friend since childhood of Michel de L'Hospital ( b. 1505 at Aigueperse), chancellor 1560 to 1573, who addressed a poem to him.

The historians in Aigueperse have worked up a history of Michel de L'Hospital and published it around 2005.

Did many things, Bishop of Vannes 1557? and was also Archbishop of Vienne

Charles, born in Aigueperse around 1510. Advocate to the parliament of Paris, and he was an advisorto Parliament in 1541. He entered the diplomatic service as ambassador to Constantinople around 1538, he was close to Henry VIII of England until 1543 and then he was close to Charles V (1548 1549). He was named Archbishop of Vienna in 1557 and he was the ambassador to Rome in 1559. He assisted at the diet of d'Augsbourg. He had a seat in the assembly of notables at Fontainbleau in Aug 1560. He recommended reforms of the church at the meeting of the States General. Under the reign of Francois II he showed hostility to the Guise and died in disgrace at Melun 2 Dec 1560, having written his memoirs.

Lynn Baumann (a de Marillac descendant), visited the Chateau de Denone just outside Aigueperse in June 2006. This chateau was Charles' home

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Charles de Marillac (c. 1510-1560) was a French prelate and diplomatist, born to a good family of Auvergne.

He was, by the age of twenty-two, an advocate in parliament in Paris. Suspected, however, of sympathizing with the reformers, he deemed it prudent to leave Paris, and in 1535 went to the East with his cousin Jean de la Foret, the first French ambassador at Constantinople. Cunning and ambitious, he soon made his mark, and his cousin having died during his embassy, Marillac was appointed his successor. He did not return from the East until 1538, when he was sent almost immediately to England, where he remained ambassador until 1543. He retained his influence during the reign of Henry II, fulfilling important missions in Switzerland and later at the imperial court (1547-1551), and at the courts of the German princes (1553-1554).

In 1555 he was one of the French deputies at the conferences held at Mark near Ardres to discuss peace with England. His two last missions were at Rome (1557) and at the Diet of Augsburg (1559). In 1550 he was given the bishopric of Vannes, and in 1557 the archbishopric of Vienne; he also became a member of the privy council. He distinguished himself as a statesman at the Assembly of Notables at Fontainebleau in 1560, when he delivered an exceedingly brilliant discourse, in which he opposed the policy of violence and demanded a national council and the assembly of the states general. Irritated by his opposition, the Guises compelled him to leave the court, and he died on the 2nd of December of the same year.

His works include: Discours sur la rupture de la Trève en l'an 1556 (Paris, 1556), and Sommaire de l'ambassade en Allemagne de feu Mr. l'archevesque de Vienne en l'an 1550, published in Ranke's Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation, vol. vi. (Leipzig, 1882). See J. Kaulek, Correspondance politique de Castillon et Marillac (1537-1542) (Paris, 1885); P. de Vassiere, Charles de Marillac (Paris, 1896).

"Motivated by the flattering painting he had received, Henry VIII of England was quite impatient to see his future bride. He went to meet her at the water's edge when she arrived by boat. Their first night as husband and wife was not a happy one; within a few hours he came from the room and announced: "I like her not." She was larger-boned than his previous wives, and Henry felt he had been lied to, as everyone had raved about her beauty. Henry urged Cromwell to find a legal way to avoid the marriage but, by this point, doing so was impossible without offending the Germans. Anne was described by the French ambassador, Charles de Marillac, as tall and thin, "of middling beauty, with a determined and resolute countenance." She was dark haired, with a rather swarthy complexion, appeared solemn by English standards, and she looked old for her age. She had a full face, high forehead, brown, heavy-lidded eyes, a long, slightly bulbous nose, and a pointed chin.[3]

LAWYER TO THE PARLIAMENT OF PARIS

ADVISOR TO PARLIAMENT - 1541 (AGE 31) French ambassador to England -wrote letter to the King about English King Henry VIII

"The only evidence that a coronation was planned for Katherine Howard comes from the correspondance of the French ambassador, Marillac, who reported in April 1541 that "the Queen is said to be with child, which would be a very great joy to this King, who, it seems, believes it, and intends, if it be found true, to have her crowned at Whitsuntide. The young lords and gentlemen of this court are practising daily for the jousts and tournaments to be then made."