Philippe Hurault

Hurault

Hurault is a French surname. It has been held by :*Etienne-Joseph Hurault , bishop of Nancy from 1930 to 1934.*Philippe Hurault de Cheverny , chancellor of France....

(1528, Cheverny

Cheverny

Cheverny is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher département in central France.It lies in the Loire Valley, about southeast of Blois.The commune is the site of the Château de Cheverny....

, Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher is a département in north-central France named after the rivers Loir and Cher.-History:Loir-et-Cher is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Orléanais and...

 – 1599), comte de Cheverny

Cheverny

Cheverny is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher département in central France.It lies in the Loire Valley, about southeast of Blois.The commune is the site of the Château de Cheverny....

, was a French nobleman and politician.

Life

He was counsellor to the parlement de Paris, maître des requêtes

Maître des requêtes

Masters of Requests are high-level judicial officers of administrative law in France and other European countries that have existed in one form or another since the Middle Ages.-Old Regime France:...

 (1562), and assisted at the battles of Jarnac

Battle of Jarnac

The Battle of Jarnac on 13 March 1569 was an encounter during the French Wars of Religion between the Catholic forces of Marshal Gaspard de Saulx, sieur de Tavannes, and the Huguenots, near the nadir of their fortunes, financed by Reinhold von Krockow and led by Louis I de Bourbon, prince de...

 and Moncontour

Battle of Moncontour

The Battle of Moncontour occurred on 3 October 1569 between the Catholic forces of King Charles IX of France and the Huguenots during the "Third War" of the French Wars of Religion.-The battle:...

. Henri III

Henry III of France

Henry III was King of France from 1574 to 1589. As Henry of Valois, he was the first elected monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the dual titles of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.-Childhood:Henry was born at the Royal Château de Fontainebleau,...

 made him garde des sceaux

Keeper of the Seals of France

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 in 1578 and lieutenant general of the Orléanais

Orléanais

Orléanais is a former province of France, around the cities of Orléans, Chartres, and Blois.The name comes from Orléans, its main city and traditional capital. The province was one of those into which France was divided before the French Revolution...

 and the pays Chartrain

Chartres

Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...

 in 1582.

After the Day of the Barricades

Day of the Barricades

In the French Wars of Religion, the Day of the Barricades , 12 May 1588, was an apparently spontaneous public uprising in staunchly Catholic Paris against the moderate, hesitant, temporalizing policies of Henry III...

 in 1588, he was disgraced by his liaisons with the Catholic League

Catholic League (French)

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 and left court. Henri IV

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

 recalled him in August 1590 and again made him garde des sceaux, a post he then held until his death.

He was the son of Raoul Hurault, controller of finances to king Francis I of France

Francis I of France

Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...

. He married Anne de Thou but had a relationship with Isabeau Babou de la Bourdaisière, lady of Sourdis, the influential aunt of Henry IV's mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées

Gabrielle d'Estrées

Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux was a French mistress of King Henry IV of France, born at either the Château de la Bourdaisière in Montlouis-sur-Loire, in Touraine, or at the château de Cœuvres, in Picardy....

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The Hurault had owned the château de Cheverny

Château de Cheverny

The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in France.-History:The lands were purchased by Henri Hurault, comte de Cheverny, a lieutenant-general and military treasurer for Louis XI, whose descendent the marquis de Vibraye is the present...

 for several generations but, after it was seized by the king, Philippe Hurault was forced to buy it back from Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of kings Francis I and his son, Henry II of France. She became notorious as the latter's favourite mistress...

. He had the estate raised to a viscountcy

Viscountcy

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 then a comté

County

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 (in 1582), and also had a house to the east of Paris, on the Roquette estate.

His Mémoires from 1567 to 1599 survive.

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