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French nobleman and politician
Philippe Hurault
(1528 in
Cheverny
,
Loir-et-Cher
? 1599), comte de
Cheverny
, was a French nobleman and politician. His son
Philippe Hurault de Cheverny
was a bishop.
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He was counsellor to the
parlement de Paris
,
maitre des requetes
(1562), and assisted at the battles of
Jarnac
and
Moncontour
.
Henri III
made him
garde des sceaux
in 1578 and lieutenant general of the
Orleanais
and the
pays Chartrain
in 1582.
After the
Day of the Barricades
in 1588, he was disgraced by his liaisons with the
Catholic League
and left court.
Henri IV
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
. He married Anne de Thou but had a relationship with Isabeau Babou de la Bourdaisiere, lady of
Sourdis
, daughter of
Jean Babou
and the influential aunt of Henry IV's mistress
Gabrielle d'Estrees
.
The Hurault had owned the
chateau de Cheverny
for several generations but, after it was seized by the king, Philippe Hurault was forced to buy it back from
Diane de Poitiers
. He had the estate raised to a
viscountcy
then a
comte
(in 1582), and also had a house to the east of Paris, on the
Roquette
estate.
His
Memoires
from 1567 to 1599 survive.
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