Philippe Hurault de Cheverny

Philippe Hurault , count of Cheverny, born in 1528 with Cheverny (Loir-et-Cher), died in 1599.

It was to advise with the Parlement of Paris, Master of the requests (1562), and attended the battles of Jarnac and Moncontour. Henri III named it Minister of Justice in 1578, lieutenant general of the Orléanais and the Chartres-native Pays in 1582.

After the day of the Barricades, he was disgraced, because of his connections with the Ligueurs, and moved away from the court. Henri IV pointed out it in August 1590 and returned the seals to him which it preserved until his death.

He was the son of Raoul Hurault, controller of finances of the king François 1 {{er}}. He was married with Anne de Thou but one lends a relation with Isabeau to him Babou of Bourdaisière, lady of Sourdis, the influential aunt of Gabrielle d' Estrées, mistress of the king Henri IV.

The Hurault family was owner of the Château of Cheverny since several generations but, after the seizure of the place by the king, Philippe Hurault had to repurchase it with Diane of Poitiers and made set up the field in Vicomté then in Comté (in 1582). He had also a residence in the east of Paris, with the field of the Roquette.

There are of him Mémoires of 1567 at 1599.

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