Jean Jonglet

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Jean Jonglet (* around 1480 in Maretz ; † August 5, 1540 in Brussels ) was Margaret of Austria's ambassador to Henry VIII of England in 1516 and from 1526 to 1527 .

Life

His grandfather was Joannes Jonglet Atrebas. In 1507 Jonglet became chairman of the Grote Raad van Mechelen , which was then meeting in Namur .

He replaced Joannes Le Roeffe († 1509) as chairman and was in turn replaced by Hercules van Dinamnt in this position. In 1517 he became councilor in the secret council, and in 1531 he was again councilor in the new secret council.

Ambassador to London

On May 19, 1522, Henry VIII had declared war on Francis I of France. Thomas Wolsey of the British government of Henry VIII. Had been informed first hand of the capture of Francis I of France on February 24, 1525, at the Battle of Pavia by Rodrigo de Peñalosa Toledo . As a result, Charles V's ambassador , Ludwig von Praet, had to leave England in a conflict with Wolsey and became ambassador to France. Jehan Jonglet, Seigneur des Maretz, replaced Jean de le Sauch, who was also a Flemish , as head of the embassy in London in August 1525 . Jean Jonglet was ambassador to London in 1518, 1519 and from 1525 to 1526. On his last mission in London, it is reported that he asked for his recall soon after stepping on English soil.

On February 26, 1526, the birthday of Charles V and the anniversary of the victory at Pavia, the Peace of Madrid was signed in Milan . John Jonglet reported to Margaret of Austria that it was publicly announced in London that Francis I would not keep this peace. The correspondence of Charles V's direct diplomats in England was recorded by Gustav Adolf Bergenroth in a research project that ruined his health in the inhospitable Archivo General de Simancas . The correspondence of the Flemish diplomats, the governor Margaret of Austria, has been archived in the Austrian National Library.

Jean Jonglet left the Spanish embassy in August 1526, afterwards Georg van Themseke was the charge de affairs .

His wife Marie Caulier died on October 12, 1533.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Petra JEM van Dam: Vissen in veenmeren - de sluisvisserij op aal tussen Haarlem en Amsterdam en de ecological transformation in Rijnland 1440–1530. Dissertation. Rijksuniv., Leiden 1997, p. 47, FN. 38.
  3. ↑ Johannes Baptista Christyn (1659–1707): Het Schouwburg der Nederlanden ofte geographische en historical beschryuinge der XVII Nederl. Provinces. Antwerp 1785, p. 190.
  4. ↑ M. Lunitz: Diplomacy and Diplomats in the XVI. Century. Studies of the permanent ambassadors of Emperor Charles V in France. Constance 1988.
  5. ^ Eleanor E. Tremayne: The first governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. 1908.
  6. ↑ Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 3 Part 1
predecessor Office successor
Jean le Sauvage Spanish envoy to England in
1518, 1519 and 1525–1526 		Georg van Thameske
personal data
SURNAME Jonglet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonglet, Joannes; Jonglet, John; Army of marets; Seigneur Des Maretz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ambassador of the Spanish Netherlands in England
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Maretz
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1540
Place of death Brussels