Anthoine Brun (1599–1654), baron d'Aspremont, was a Burgundian ( Franche-Comté) diplomat in the service of

Philip IV of Spain Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered ...

Life

Brun was born on 29 June 1599, the son of Claude Brun, advocate in the Parlement of Dole. He studied law at the universities of

Dole Dole may refer to: Places * Dole, Ceredigion, Wales * Dole, Idrija, Slovenia * Dole, Jura, France ** Arrondissement of Dole * Dole (Kladanj), a village at the entity line of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina-Republika Srpska * Dole, Ljubušk ...

and Bourges. In 1632 he was appointed procurator general of the Parlement of Dole. He was a leading figure in organising resistance to the French invasion of Franche-Comté in 1636. Brun was appointed to the

Supreme Council of Flanders The Supreme Council of Flanders and Burgundy (''Consejo Supremo de Flandes y Borgoña'' (i.e. Flanders and Burgundy), or simply ''Consejo de Flandes'') was a governing institution in the Spanish Empire responsible for advising the king of Spain ...

in 1642. As a representative of the king of Spain, he played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Peace of Münster (1648). Thereafter he became the king's first resident ambassador in the newly recognised

Dutch Republic The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...

. He took up residence in The Hague in mid-1649, his first official despatch as ambassador being dated 29 June 1649. In 1650 he concluded a naval treaty with the Dutch on behalf of the king.''Traitté de la Marine, Faict, conclu, & arresté à la Haye en Hollande, le dix-septième du mois de Decembre 1650 entre Messire Antoine Brun, Ambassadeur ordinaire du Seigneur Roi d'Espagne d'une, & les Sieurs Deputés des Seigneurs Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas d'autre part'' (The Hague, 1663). He was also a man of letters, publishing a French translation of a selection of the letters of

Justus Lipsius Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; 18 October 1547 – 23 March 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible w ...

: ''Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse'' (1650). He died 2 January 1654.

Publications

''Le Manifeste d'Antoine Brun (1638)''
edited by Emile Longin (Vesoul, 1905).
''Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse''
translated by Antoine Brun (Lyon, 1650).

References

Belgian diplomats Belgian politicians Burgundian people of the Eighty Years' War Ambassadors of Spain to the Netherlands Latin–French translators 1599 births 1654 deaths 17th-century translators {{Spain-diplomat-stub