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COUNT OF CHARNY AND BUZANSAIS SEIGNEUR DE BRION PHILIPPE DE See also:CHABOT ((a 1492-1543)  , See also:admiral of See also:France . The See also:Chabot See also:family was one of the See also:oldest and most powerful in See also:Poitou . Philippe was a See also:cadet of the See also:Jarnac See also:branch . He was a See also:companion of See also:Francis I. as a See also:child, and on that See also:king's See also:accession was loaded with honours and estates . After the See also:battle of See also:Pavia he was made admiral of France and See also:governor of See also:Burgundy (1526), and shared with See also:Anne de See also:Montmorency the direction of affairs . He was at the height of his See also:power in 1535, and commanded the See also:army for the invasion of the states of the See also:duke of See also:Savoy; but in the See also:campaigns of 1536 and 1537 he was eclipsed by Montmorency, and from that moment his See also:influence began to wane . He was accused by his enemies of peculation, and condemned on the loth of See also:February 1541 to a See also:fine of 1,500,000 livres, to banishment, and to the See also:confiscation of his estates . Through the See also:good offices of Madam d'1~:tampes, however, he obtained the king's See also:pardon almost immediately (See also:March 1541), was reinstated in his posts, and regained his estates and even his influence, while Montmorency in his turn was disgraced . But his See also:health was affected by these troubles, and he died soon afterwards on the 1st of See also:June 1543 . His See also:tomb in the Louvre, by an unknown sculptor, is a fine example of See also:French See also:Renaissance See also:work . It was his See also:nephew, See also:Guy Chabot, seigneur de Jarnac, who fought the famous See also:duel with See also:Francois de Vivonne, seigneur de la Chataigneraie, in 1547, at the beginning of the reign of See also:Henry II . The See also:main authorities for Chabot's See also:life are his MS. See also:correspondence in the Bibliotheque Nationale, See also:Paris, and contemporary See also:memoirs .

See also E. de See also:

Barthelemy, " Chabot de Brion," in the Fevue See also:des questions historiques (vol. xx . 1876) ; See also:Martineau, " L'Amiral Chabot," in the Positions des theses de l'Ecole des See also:Charles (1883) .

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