ANNALS OF DE NORMANDIE Preface - Page 3.
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Surnames: DE NORMANDIE
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half year beginning on the second of the present month.
“Here is a question : whether the above Monseigneur DE NEMOURS was a son of JACQUES DE SAVOY, who in 1565 was declared illegitimate. His mother, FRANCOISE DE ROHAN, was a daughter of RENE DE ROHAN and ISABEL D’ALBRET, which last was a cousin german of JEANNE D’ALBRET, dowager queen of Navarre and mother of HENRY 1V., king of France and Navarre. HENRY DE NEMOURS was sent to Geneva in 1564, by JACQUES SPIFAME, seigneur DE PASSY and bishop of Nevers, who after joining the reform became a refugee in Geneva in 1559, and the bearer of a letter from the queen of Navarre to the council, recommending the young Monsieur DE NEMOURS to its care.
“July 13th and August 5th, 1566, THEODORE DE BEZE, in the name of and as attorney of J. CAVET, receiver of taxes at Vezelay, acknowledges having received
2133 livres, one sol, together that which Monsieur DE NORMANDIE has on hand, belonging to PERRONE DE PISCELEU, dame DE CANY, sole heiress of CARDINAL DE MEUDON. DE NORMANDIE acted in the case for SANGUIN, bishop of Orleans, since bishop of Toulouse, and created a cardinal in 1538.
“August 11th, 1567. The registers of the council show, ‘that Monsieur DE NORMANDIE has requested to make a journey into France on his urgent affairs.’
Resolved : ‘that his request be granted on condition that he promises to supply and equip a mounted man.’
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“Later : It being commonly reported that Monsieur LAURENT DE NORMANDIE intends to abandon this city altogether, he has been asked to reply to this fully and conscientiously; on which he answers, ‘ that he contemplates no such thing, and that when he made his request, he expected to be gone but one year.’ Resolved : ‘that the refusal be here rescinded, save that on such revocation he shall be obliged to maintain a mounted man.’
“Again : LAURENT DE NORMANDIE has requested that he be permitted to make a journey into France on his pressing affairs : Resolved : ‘that the council confirm the permission, and rescind the requisition, that he maintain a mounted man, by reason of his pleading his great necessities.
“By a decree of the Parliament of Paris, dated September 7th, 1552, it ‘condemns Monsieur LAURENT DE NORMANDIE to be drawn upon a hurdle to the market-lace of the city of Noyon, and there to be burned alive, as guilty of having fled the kingdom.’
“As DE NORMANDIE was safely lodged within the walls of Geneva, and beyond the power Catholic authorities of Noyon, the sentence was carried out in effigy, but later the protection of those high in power reinstated him in royal favor, and in the possession of his confiscated estates.
“Two documents we stop to describe were written upon the occasion of journeys back and forth, for the settlement of his affairs in France.
P. 79.
The first is a letter from THEODORE DE BEZE to JEANNE D’ALBRET, the dowager queen of Navarre.
“This letter, embracing details of interest, has been given us by M. GALIFFE in his ‘Notices genealogiques.’
“Madame : The weakness of this poor world is of such sort, and of it I know you have learned both from books and by experience, that none have more need of faithful adherents than those who are elevated in a high degree. For my part, having been favored by being among the number of those among whom it is not displeasing to you to command, and yet not always having means of serving you, should it please God, as I would desire, I considered that in default of ability to engage myself therein, at least to seek what means I could to let you know what I might and would do for the honor of God and the settlement of your scruples.
“Madame : I pray you to recall to your remembrance a personage LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, who was brought to your attention by my late good father M. CALVIN when you were at St. Germain, before these late troubles, for that he had need of letters to the late king your father, so that he might have his estates restored to him, of which he was deprived for having retired to this city. In addition, he long served the late king your father in the office of Maitre des Requetes, in which office, Madame, he was continued by the late king your husband, as well also by you,
P. 80.
Madame. He has always managed great affairs for the late king in Picardie, and since then in these parts for six years past he has so carried himself, that I shall never find it difficult to answer for his prudence, experience and diligence; therefore at this time having obtained letters which call for his reestablishment in his rights, it is necessary for him to make a journey in to Picardie, and I would not fail, Madame, to give you a notice thereof and in writing also a word to M. DE PASSY, who knows him as well as I do or as he knows me, for the assurance I have, that he will do you good service as occasion may permit, to the glory of God and to your satisfaction.
“From Geneva, this last day of June.
“Your very humble and obedient servitor,
THEODORE DE BEZE.
“The second document is the will of LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, dated the sixth of September, 1565, which at the same time tells of an expected journey.
“The opening clause of the will is as follows:
“To ALL UNTO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
“The noble LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, doctor of Laws and a citizen of Geneva, who, considering
P. 81. (to be continued)
half year beginning on the second of the present month.
“Here is a question : whether the above Monseigneur DE NEMOURS was a son of JACQUES DE SAVOY, who in 1565 was declared illegitimate. His mother, FRANCOISE DE ROHAN, was a daughter of RENE DE ROHAN and ISABEL D’ALBRET, which last was a cousin german of JEANNE D’ALBRET, dowager queen of Navarre and mother of HENRY 1V., king of France and Navarre. HENRY DE NEMOURS was sent to Geneva in 1564, by JACQUES SPIFAME, seigneur DE PASSY and bishop of Nevers, who after joining the reform became a refugee in Geneva in 1559, and the bearer of a letter from the queen of Navarre to the council, recommending the young Monsieur DE NEMOURS to its care.
“July 13th and August 5th, 1566, THEODORE DE BEZE, in the name of and as attorney of J. CAVET, receiver of taxes at Vezelay, acknowledges having received
2133 livres, one sol, together that which Monsieur DE NORMANDIE has on hand, belonging to PERRONE DE PISCELEU, dame DE CANY, sole heiress of CARDINAL DE MEUDON. DE NORMANDIE acted in the case for SANGUIN, bishop of Orleans, since bishop of Toulouse, and created a cardinal in 1538.
“August 11th, 1567. The registers of the council show, ‘that Monsieur DE NORMANDIE has requested to make a journey into France on his urgent affairs.’
Resolved : ‘that his request be granted on condition that he promises to supply and equip a mounted man.’
P. 78.
“Later : It being commonly reported that Monsieur LAURENT DE NORMANDIE intends to abandon this city altogether, he has been asked to reply to this fully and conscientiously; on which he answers, ‘ that he contemplates no such thing, and that when he made his request, he expected to be gone but one year.’ Resolved : ‘that the refusal be here rescinded, save that on such revocation he shall be obliged to maintain a mounted man.’
“Again : LAURENT DE NORMANDIE has requested that he be permitted to make a journey into France on his pressing affairs : Resolved : ‘that the council confirm the permission, and rescind the requisition, that he maintain a mounted man, by reason of his pleading his great necessities.
“By a decree of the Parliament of Paris, dated September 7th, 1552, it ‘condemns Monsieur LAURENT DE NORMANDIE to be drawn upon a hurdle to the market-lace of the city of Noyon, and there to be burned alive, as guilty of having fled the kingdom.’
“As DE NORMANDIE was safely lodged within the walls of Geneva, and beyond the power Catholic authorities of Noyon, the sentence was carried out in effigy, but later the protection of those high in power reinstated him in royal favor, and in the possession of his confiscated estates.
“Two documents we stop to describe were written upon the occasion of journeys back and forth, for the settlement of his affairs in France.
P. 79.
The first is a letter from THEODORE DE BEZE to JEANNE D’ALBRET, the dowager queen of Navarre.
“This letter, embracing details of interest, has been given us by M. GALIFFE in his ‘Notices genealogiques.’
“Madame : The weakness of this poor world is of such sort, and of it I know you have learned both from books and by experience, that none have more need of faithful adherents than those who are elevated in a high degree. For my part, having been favored by being among the number of those among whom it is not displeasing to you to command, and yet not always having means of serving you, should it please God, as I would desire, I considered that in default of ability to engage myself therein, at least to seek what means I could to let you know what I might and would do for the honor of God and the settlement of your scruples.
“Madame : I pray you to recall to your remembrance a personage LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, who was brought to your attention by my late good father M. CALVIN when you were at St. Germain, before these late troubles, for that he had need of letters to the late king your father, so that he might have his estates restored to him, of which he was deprived for having retired to this city. In addition, he long served the late king your father in the office of Maitre des Requetes, in which office, Madame, he was continued by the late king your husband, as well also by you,
P. 80.
Madame. He has always managed great affairs for the late king in Picardie, and since then in these parts for six years past he has so carried himself, that I shall never find it difficult to answer for his prudence, experience and diligence; therefore at this time having obtained letters which call for his reestablishment in his rights, it is necessary for him to make a journey in to Picardie, and I would not fail, Madame, to give you a notice thereof and in writing also a word to M. DE PASSY, who knows him as well as I do or as he knows me, for the assurance I have, that he will do you good service as occasion may permit, to the glory of God and to your satisfaction.
“From Geneva, this last day of June.
“Your very humble and obedient servitor,
THEODORE DE BEZE.
“The second document is the will of LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, dated the sixth of September, 1565, which at the same time tells of an expected journey.
“The opening clause of the will is as follows:
“To ALL UNTO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
“The noble LAURENT DE NORMANDIE, doctor of Laws and a citizen of Geneva, who, considering
P. 81. (to be continued)