Nicolas Brulart de Sillery is a Statesman French born in 1544 and died in 1624.
Biography
Resulting from a family of magistrates, Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery becomes adviser with the Parlement of Paris in 1573, then main of the requests under Henri III and begins a diplomatic career. He negotiates with Henri de Navarre and the Swiss ones (1589 and 1593). In 1598, it negotiates the Paix of Vervins between France, Spain and Savoy. It obtains from the pope the cancellation of the marriage of Henri IV and Marguerite de Valois and concludes the remarriage from the king with Marie de Médicis.
It is named Minister of Justice in 1604, then chancellor in 1607. It tries, in vain, to convince the king to be combined in Spain. After the assassination of the king, Concini draws aside it from the council in 1612; it loses the seals in 1616. It becomes again Minister of Justice in 1623 but Richelieu, inspired by Vieuville, withdraws to him in 1624.
See too
- List of the French Ministers for justice
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