Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie
Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie was
French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
from 1566 to 1571.
From 1566, he notably proposed to the Ottoman Court a plan, devised by
Voyvoda of Moldavia, who would pay a tribute of 20,000 ducats to the Ottomans.[2]
In 1569, during the tenure of Grandchamp, the Ottomans seized French and foreign ships under French flags in order to recover a debt estimated to 150,000 Écus or ducats that Charles IX owed to the Ottoman money-lender Joseph Nasi. After protests, only the French ships and goods were kept, totalling an amount of about 42,000 ducats.[3] The goods were at least partially returned with the signature of the 1569 Capitulations.[1]