Pierre Pigray was a French

surgeon In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...

born in

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in 1531. He was a student of the famous surgeon,

Ambroise Paré Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a p ...

before qualifying as a master surgeon in 1564. In addition to his service to the wounded in the

Battle of Dreux The Battle of Dreux was fought on 19 December 1562 between Catholics and Huguenots. The Catholics were led by Anne de Montmorency while Louis I, Prince of Condé, led the Huguenots. Though commanders from both sides were captured, the French Cat ...

(1562), Pigray was best known for being the surgeon-in-ordinary to King Charles IX, King Henri III, and

King Henri IV Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch ...

. He died 16 October 1613.

References

* Francis R. Packard, Life and Times of Ambroise Pare (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1921) 253. {{Authority control 16th-century French physicians