See also:CHARLES DE See also:MARILLAC (c. 1510-1560)
, See also:French See also:prelate and diplomatist, came of a See also:good See also:family of See also:Auvergne, and at the See also:age of twenty-two was See also:advocate at the See also:parlement of See also:Paris
.
Suspected, however, of sympathizing with the reformers, he deemed it prudent to leave Paris, and in 1535 went to the See also:East with his See also:cousin See also:Jean de la Foret, the first French See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople
.
Cunning and ambitious, he soon made his See also:mark, and his cousin having died during his See also:embassy, See also:Marillac was appointed his successor
.
He did not return from the East until 1538, when he was sent almost immediately to See also:England, where he remained ambassador until 1543
.
He retained his See also:influence during the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II., fulfilling important See also:missions in See also:Switzerland and at the imperial See also:court (1547-1551),
and at the courts of the See also:German princes (1553-1554)
.
In 1555 he was one of the French deputies at the conferences held
at Mark near See also:Ardres to discuss See also:peace with England
.
His two last missions were at See also:Rome (1557) and at the See also:Diet of See also:Augsburg (1559)
.
In 1550 he was given the bishopric of See also:Vannes, and in 1557 the archbishopric of See also:Vienne; he also became a member of the privy See also:council
.
He distinguished himself as a statesman at the See also:Assembly of Notables at See also:Fontainebleau in 1560, when he delivered an exceedingly brilliant discourse, in which he opposed the policy of violence and demanded a See also:national council and the assembly of the states See also:general
.
Irritated by his opposition, the Guises compelled him to leave the court, and he died on the 2nd of See also:December of the same See also:year
.
His See also:works include: Discours sur la roupture de la Trefve en l'an 1556 (Paris, 1556), and " Sommaire de 1'ambassade en Allemagne de See also:feu Mr. l'archevesque de Vienne en See also:Pan 1550," published in See also:Ranke's Deutsche Geschichte See also:im Zeitalter der See also:Reformation, vol. vi
.
(See also:Leipzig, 1882)
.
See J
.
Kaulek, Correspondance politique de Castilian et Marillac (1537—1542) (Paris, 1885); P. de Vassiere, See also:Charles de Marillac (Paris, 1896)
.
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