Guillaume Pot de Rhodes

Guillaume Pot , called Guillaume Pot de Rhodes (* before 1583; † 1603 ), was Lord of Rhodes and Chemault , official of the French court and the first grand master of ceremonies in France . He was the son of the royal master of ceremonies ( Maître des cérémonies ) Jean Pot de Chemaut.

Life

Guillaume Pot, who comes from the Burgundian noble family Pot , became one of the favorites of King Henry III. , and as such entrusted by the royal court with a number of duties. Among other things, he also followed his father as the royal master of ceremonies . In this function he was commissioned in 1583 by the working group meeting in Saint-Germain , which was supposed to discuss the chaos in the court ceremonies that had prevailed up to that point, to compile a compilation of courtly customs, which has not been preserved, but presumably Heinrich's orderly III. of January 1, 1585, which affected this subject. With this ordinance , among other things, regulations for the office of Grand Maître des Cérémonies de France were issued, which were thus separated from the office of Grand Masters of France . Guillaume Pot himself was then transferred to the Reformed office in a patent letter on January 2, 1585. However, the poor health of Pots and his duties in the army required that the office of Maître des Cérémonies de France was created in support of the Grand Maître des Cérémonies .

Guillaume Pot married Jacqueline de La Chatre, daughter of Claude de La Chatre, Baron de La Maisonfort , and sister of Marshal Claude de La Chatre . The couple had six daughters and five sons:

• Henri, Guillaume's successor as Porte-cornette blanche was
• Guillaume II. Pot de Rhodes, who Guillaume's successor as Grand Maître of Cérémonies de France was
• François, who succeeded his brother Guillaume
• Georges, Knight of the Order of Malta
• Antoine, Capuchin

literature

• Marie-Lan Nguyen: Les grands maîtres des cérémonies et le service des cérémonies à l'époque modern (1585–1792) . maîtrise de l'université Paris-IV Sorbonne, 1999.