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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

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1526 1535 Charles de Solier, comte de Morette[2]
1535 1537 Antoine de Castelnau[3]
1537 1538 Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon[4]
1538 1543 Charles de Marillac[5]
1543 1546 Aymar Chaste[6]
1546 1548 Odet de Selve[7]
1553 1556 Antoine de Noailles, 1st comte de Noailles[8]
1556 1557 François de Noailles[8]
1558 1559 Gilles de Noailles[a][8]
1560 1562 Michel de Sèvre[b][8]
1562 1566 Paul de Foix de Carmain[9]
1566 1568 Jacques Bochetel de la Forest[8]
1568 1574 Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon[8]
1574 1584 Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissiére[8]
1585 1589 Guillaume de l'Aubespine de Châteauneuf[8]
1589 1592 Aymar Chaste[c][10]
1602 1605 Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont[8]
1606 1613 Antoine Lefèvre de la Boderie[8]
1611 1615 Samuel Spifame, Sieur des Bisseaux[11]
1615 1618 Gaspard Dauvet, Sieur des Marets[11]
1618 1621 Honoré d'Albret de Cadenet[12]
1625 1625 Jean de Varigniez, Sieur de Blainville[13]
1626 1627 François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France[13]
1629 1630 Charles de L'Aubespine, Marquis of Châteauneuf[13]
1630 1633 François du Val de Fontenay-Mareuil, Marquis of Fontenay Mareuil[13]
1633 1635 Jean d'Angennes, Marquis de Poygni[13]
1635 1637 Henri I de Saint-Nectaire
1637 1640 Pompone de Bellièvre
1640 1641 Jean de Montereul[13]
1641 1643 Jacques d'Estampes de La Ferté-Imbert
1645 1650 Jean de Montereul[13]
1652 1660 Antoine de Bordeaux, seigneur de Neufville[13]
1661 1662 Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades[13]
1662 1665 François de Comminges[13]
1665 1668 Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Verneuil[13]
1668 1674 Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy[d][13]
1674 1677 Henri de Massue, 1st Marquis de Rouvigny[13]
1677 1688 Paul Barillon[13]

See also

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Notes

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  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

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  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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "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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