Odet de Selve

Odet de Selve (1504 - 1563) is a Diplomate French.

1.2 B 8.2 Odet de Selve, Lord of Marignan, Knight, Wire of Jean de Selve, First president of the Parliament of Paris

To advise with the Parliament of Paris of 1540 with 1542, To advise (1542) then President of the Large-Council.

Of the June 22nd 1546 with 1549, it was sent as Ambassadeur to London the shortly after the signature of the Traité of Ardres of which it have the care to supervise the execution as well as possible honor of France, reach at least seemingly, by the stipulations of this treaty, while making respect the advantageous sides: freedom to lend support to the Scotland in war with the England.

the interruption of all official relations between the two crowns, in 1549, brought back it in its fatherland. But it accepted almost at once (July 16th 1550) mission of going as Ambassadeur to Venice to try to engage the sérénissime République of Venice in free-Turkish alliance and the conquète jointly of the Royaume of Naples. When this double project had been tiny room to nothing by a naval defeat of the combined fleets royal and Othoman, it had to defend in the septentrional Italy the French influence which, already compromised by the preceding events, was it more still when His had been narrowly invested by the imperial forces. Different between the ambassador and Blaise de Montluc, généralissime of the French forces, brought the displacement of the first in May 1554.

Before it left for Rome, or he was a vice-chancellor of the Duché of Milan and ambassador of the king de France Henri II with Rome, this four year campaign, made harder still by reiterated failures, from which he suffered the consequence without in being for nothing responsible, was worth to him to be appointed Master of the requests of the hotel, Conseiller to the private Conseil and Conseiller ordinary state. The death of sovereign pontiff close of whom it had been accredited followed with short interval its arrival in the Eternal City the April 21st 1555. It obtained the election May 23rd 1555 of Paul IV, which ensured a powerful ally its Master, was the triumph of Odet de Selve and contains its political legacy. Pointed out following its signature of the Truce of Vaucelles the February 5th 1556, it did not play any more any big role during the seven years which remained to him to be lived.

Dead Ambassador in Rome in March 1563, buried in the Church Saint-Nicolas-of-Hanging-post.

It is reproduced, in company of Jean de Dinteville, on table the Ambassadors of Hans Holbein the young person, painted in 1533, preserved at the National Gallery, of London.

Married before 1546 with Renee of Montmirail, which survived to him, it had 8 children, 5 wire and 3 girls:

About it one will find: Political correspondence of Odet de Selve, ambassador of France in England (1546-1549), published under the auspices of the Commission of the diplomatic files, by German Lefèvre-Pontalis, In-8, XXVII-519 pages, printed by F. Alcan, Paris, 1888. Preserved at the BNF Tolbiac, department: Philosophy, history, social sciences, dimension: 8-LG4-47 (4), note n°: FRBNF31349988

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