L'Aubespine

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The L'Aubespine family was a French family descended from Claude de l'Aubespine, a lawyer of Orléans and bailiff of the abbey of in the beginning of the 16th century. His progeny gained distinction in offices connected with the law.

Sebastien de l'Aubespine.
  • Charles de l'Aubespine (1580–1653) was ambassador to Germany, the Low Countries, Venice and England. He was Keeper of the Seals, from 1630–1633, and 1650–1651.[6]
  • François de L'Aubespine, marquis de Hauterive (c. 1584-1670) was a French general. Born into an old family of counselors and secretaries of state, he was the son of Guillame de L'Aubespine, Baron of Chateauneuf, and his brother Charles L'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf. He fought in the Eighty Years' War beginning in the early seventeenth century, serving the states of Holland against Spain. At the siege of Jülich in 1610, his name appears among the officers of the regiment of Bethune. In 1644 he was colonel of a French regiment.[7] The Marquis de Hauterive was general of the French infantry in Holland and governor of Breda. He later became lieutenant-general of the armies of the king. He won the confidence of Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, because of his opposition to Cardinal Richelieu. He married , Marchioness of Ruffec; they had a daughter, Charlotte, mother of the Duc de Saint-Simon, famous diarist.

The family fell into poor circumstances and became extinct in the 18th century.

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  1. ^ Frances Gardiner Davenport; Charles O. Paullin, eds. (2004). European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-58477-422-8.
  2. ^ "Erotica and women in early modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine's queer poems". Journal of the History of Sexuality, May 01, 2008, Klosowska, Anna
  3. ^ "Selected Poems and Translations: Selected Poems and Translations. By MADELEINE DE L'AUBESPINE.", The Modern Language Review, October 1, 2008
  4. ^ Madeleine de l’Aubespine (2007). Anna Kłosowska (ed.). Selected poems and translations: a bilingual edition. Translator Anna Kłosowska. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14194-7.
  5. ^ "Madeleine de l’Aubespine: Life, Works, and Auto-Mythography: An Exchange with Ronsard, ca. 1570–801", French Forum, Anna Klosowska, Volume 32, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2007, pp. 19-38
  6. ^ "Great Officers of the Crown".
  7. ^ Tallemant des Réaux, Historiettes (éd. by Antoine Adam), volume I, Bibl. de la Pléiade, NRF, Gallimard, 1960 : note 3 �� la p.227 (p.892).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "L'Aubespine". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 276.

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