Artus Gouffier de Boissy (6 September 1475 – 13 May 1519 in
Montpellier
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) was a French nobleman and politician. He was duke of Roannez and
pair de France
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, count of Étampes, count of
Caravaggio
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, baron of
Passavant, of
Maulévrier
Maulévrier () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
Points of interest
* Parc Oriental de Maulévrier which is the biggest Japanese garden in France
See also
*Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department
The followin ...
, of Roanne, of la
Mothe-Saint-Romain, of
Bourg-Charente and of
Saint-Loup, lord of
Oiron, of
Villedieu-sur-Indre
Villedieu-sur-Indre (, literally ''Villedieu on Indre'') is a commune in the Indre department in central France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Indre department
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, of Valence and of Cazamajor. He served as
Grand Master of France
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and attempted to negotiate a lasting peace between France and the
House of Habsburg
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at the time of his early death.
Life
The eldest son of Guillaume Gouffier de Boisy,
sénéchal Senechal or Sénéchal may refer to:
People
* Florian Sénéchal
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Career
He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, and was named i ...
of
Saintonge
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*County of Saintonge, a historical province of France on the Atlantic coast
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Places
*Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, a commune in the Charente-Mari ...
, and of Philippine de Montmorency, he began his court career as a page to
Charles VIII, who his father had served as preceptor. He accompanied Charles on the conquest of the
Kingdom of Naples
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in 1495, as well as accompanying
Louis XII of France
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to Italy.
Further reading
*
Yves-Marie Bercé
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Biography
A student at the École Nationale des Chartes and for ...
, « Artus Gouffier, grand maître de la Maison du Roi (vers 1472-1519) », ''Le Conseil du Roi de Louis XII à la Révolution'', dir.
Roland Mousnier
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Life
Mousnier was born in Paris and receiv ...
,
Paris
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,
PUF
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* Pau Pyrénées Airport in France (I ...
, 1970, p. 207-230.
*Etienne Fournial, ''Monsieur de Boisy. Grand maître de France sous François Ier'',
Lyon
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, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1996, 149 p.
*Arlette Jouanna, Philippe Hamon, Dominique Biloghi, Guy Le Thiec, ''La France de la Renaissance. Histoire et dictionnaire'', Paris,
Robert Laffont
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, 2001, article « Gouffier, famille », p. 851-854.
*Pierre Carouge, « Artus (1474-1519) et Guillaume (1482-1525) Gouffier à l’émergence de nouvelles modalités de gouvernement », ''Les conseillers de François Ier'', dir. Cédric Michon,
Rennes
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, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011, p. 229-253.
1475 births
1519 deaths
Dukes of Roannais
Peers of France
Court of Francis I of France
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