Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades (1607 – February 26, 1686) was a French diplomat and

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D'Estrades was born in

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. He was the son of Francois d'Estrades (died 1653), a partisan of Henry IV, and brother of ,

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. He became a page to

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, and at the age of nineteen was sent on a mission to Maurice of Holland. In 1646 d'Estrades was named ambassador extraordinary to

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, and took part in the conferences at

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. Sent in 1661 to

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, he obtained in 1662 the restitution of

Dunkirk Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.Treaty of Breda with the

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, and in 1678 the

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, which ended the war with Holland. Independently of these diplomatic missions, he took part in the principal campaigns of

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, in

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(1648), in

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(1655), in Holland (1672); and was created

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in 1675. He left ''Lettres, memoires et négociations en qual d'ambassadeur en Hollande depuis 1663 jusqu'en 1668'', of which the first edition in 1709 was followed by a nine-volume edition (London (the Hague), 1743).

Family

Of the sons of Godefroi d'Estrades, was ambassador to Venice and Piedmont; Louis, marquis d'Estrades (died 1711), succeeded his father as governor of Dunkirk, and was the father of Godefroi Louis, comte d'Estrades (died 1717), lieutenant-general, who was killed at the siege of Belgrade.

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