Pomponne de Bellièvre
Pomponne de Bellièvre (1529 – 7 or 9 September 1607) was a French statesman, chancellor of France (1599–1605).
Life
Bellièvre was born in Lyon in 1529.
Between 1575 and 1588, Bellièvre accepted more than a dozen diplomatic missions for
Pomponne de Bellièvre was sent to London in November 1586 by Henry III and Catherine de' Medici to try to persuade Elizabeth I not to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. Elizabeth rejected the arguments presented by Bellièvre, and insisted that because Mary was in England she was subordinate to her rule and justice.[2]
Farewell to Henry III
As King Henry III lay dying in 1589, Bellièvre pronounced a devastating commentary on the royal master he had served: "If kings are good, we must preserve them; if they are bad, we must endure them. God sends one or the other to punish or console His people."[1]
References
- Poncet, Olivier, Pomponne de Bellièvre (1529–1607) Un homme d’État au temps des guerres de religion (Paris: École des chartes, 1999)
Notes
- ^ a b Dickerman, Edmund H., and Anita M. Walker, "Missions impossible: Pomponne de Bellievre and the policies of Henry III" in Canadian Journal of History, Dec. 2000 online version at findarticles.com, Retrieved 1 August 2008
- ^ Estelle Paranque, Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 188–198.
External links
- Media related to Pomponne de Bellièvre at Wikimedia Commons