Claude de L'Aubespine
Claude de L'Aubespine († 1567 ), Baron de Châteauneuf was a French diplomat and first foreign minister (French: secrétaire d'État aux Affaires étrangères ) of France. He came from a noble family from Burgundy and was the brother of Bishop Sébastien de L'Aubespine and the grandfather Charles de L'Aubespines .
Claude de L'Aubespine was State Secretary of the Kings Francis I , Henry II , Francis II and Charles IX. who ruled successively from 1515 to 1574. Henry II and his successors charged him with a number of diplomatic missions. The most important was that of the royal plenipotentiaire ( Ministre plénipotentiaire ) in the negotiations for the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559). The Assemblée de Fontainebleau of the year 1560, at which an edict of tolerance towards the Protestants was passed, is connected with his name as well as the Reddition de Bourges of 1562.
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| SURNAME | L'Aubespine, Claude de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1567 |