Jérôme Groslot, Sieur de l'Isle (died 1622) was a French diplomat. Catherinebourbon1

Background

His father, also Jérôme Groslot (1520–1572), was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris. Jérôme Groslot came to Scotland and was brought up for a time with the young

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. In Scotland, Jérôme Groslot was sometimes known as "the son of the Baillie of Orleans". His sister Louise married Samuel Puchot de Bertreuille in 1601.

Diplomacy

Groslot returned to France in 1581 and

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, his former tutor, wrote to

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on his behalf. He visited Oxford and Cambridge universities with Paulus Melissus. Jérôme Groslot was sent to Scotland in April 1589 to advocate the marriage of James VI to

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, sister of Henry of Navarre. An English observer at the Scottish court Thomas Fowler wrote that François de Civille and Jérôme Groslot encouraged Edinburgh merchants who dealt with France to support the Navarre marriage. John Colville wrote to the Laird of Wemyss that James VI was set on the Danish marriage and l'Isle's efforts were likely to be in vain. When he left Scotland in July, James VI gave him 200 French crowns to fund his journey to Navarre with James's answers.

Death

He died in 1622.Natasha Constantinidou, ''Responses to Religious Division'' (Leiden, 2017), p. 63.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Groslot, Jérôme Expatriates in the Kingdom of Scotland Court of James VI and I 1622 deaths