Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon was the French ambassador to England during the reign of

Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...

. He served at the English court from November 1537 to December 1538 and was replaced by

Charles de Marillac Charles de Marillac (c.1510 – 2 December 1560) was a French prelate and diplomat. Career De Marillac was born in Riom and was, by the age of twenty-two, an advocate in parliament in Paris. Suspected, however, of sympathizing with the ref ...

. His predecessor was

Antoine de Castelnau Antoine de Castelnau, (died 1539), Bishop of Tarbes, was a French diplomat, who served as an ambassador to England and Spain during the reign of Francis I. Biography Antoine de Castelnau was the son of Louis de Castelnau, baron of Castelnau, Mir ...

. De Perreau's time as ambassador to England coincided with Henry's search for a royal wife to replace

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(who had died in October 1857). Under consideration was

Mary of Guise Mary of Guise (french: Marie de Guise; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine and one of the most powerful families in France. She ...

, widow of

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. Failing to secure the alliance, de Perreau described Henry VIII thus: 'I have to deal with the most dangerous and cruel man in the world, for

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he is in a fury, he has neither reason nor understanding left.' Robert Hutchinson, p.7, ''Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant'', 2019,

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