Antoine de Lomenie, lord of La Ville-aux-Clerics (1560 - 17 January 1638
Paris
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) was a Secretary of the Navy under
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
of 7 November 1613 to 10 August 1615, and Ambassador Extraordinary of France to England.
He was the son of Martial Lomenie,
Seigneur
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de Versailles (†1572 in the
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Paris) and Jacqueline Pinault.
He was
Secrétaire d'État of
Navarre 1595–1613.
He was, in the judgment of Adina Ruiu, "a disciple and an old friend of the
Jesuits
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for whom he never missed a chance to do a favor".
[Adina Ruiu,]
Conflicting Visions of the Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire, 1609–1628
, ''Journal of Jesuit Studies'', Volume 1 (2014): Issue 2 (March 2014): Jesuit Missionary Perspectives and Strategies, p. 260–280
He married on 1 October 1593 with Anne of Aubourg, lady Porcheux 1608; they had children:
* Henri-Auguste de 1595-1666 Lomenie
* Catherine Henriette 1667
* Marie Antoinette
References
* Dugat, Gustave / Havet, Julien / Houdas, Octave Victor / Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac baron / Latouche, Emmanuel / Longueville, Edme Paul Marcellin : ''Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, Lûs au Comité établi par Sa Majesté dans l’Académie royale des Inscriptions & Belles Lettres'', Tome Deuxième, Paris, l’Imprimerie Royale, 178
(in French)
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1560 births
1638 deaths
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies
Ambassadors of France to England
16th-century French people
17th-century French people