Robertet family with the Rebirth

Jean Robertet (1405-1492)

This lawyer forézien, writer and poet, followed the fortune of the dukes of Bourbon to the court of the kings. He is initially quoted as Notaire Secretary of the room of the Accounts of Drill, then baillif of Usson.

In 1466, it signs for the duke, in the capacity as “Large Master of National Forestry Commission”, the answer to a request, then contresigns several acts. It accompanies in Moulin several dukes who introduce it near the King. Louis {{Romanian|XI|11}} creates, in 1469 with Amboise, the Ordre of Saint-Michel, the king considered a “pleasant company of gentlemen of name and weapons without reproach, not exceeding of number 36; this number was seldom reached. The companions of this order of knighthood, the elite of the kingdom, owed absolute fidelity to the chief of the order, the sovereign himself. It is in Jean Robertet whom he entrusts the load of “First Clerk of the order” (this explains why the vault of Robertet with Montbrison is dedicated to Saint-Michel). Its load was to make prepare by scribes the first two specimens of the statutes, that for king Louis XI|11 decorated by a miniature, and then to hold up to date the official reports of the assemblies of the order.

It assists with the general states of Turns in 1484 where it is charged to collate the original of the response of the king to the book of the states. A specimen of the Praises of Madam Anne of France at the National library is dedicated with lord Jehan Robertet, secretary of the king and first officer of the royal order.

Itself, in the inscription which it will make engrave for its tomb, with the cathedral, precise that it followed, in the capacity as secretary of the dukes of Bourbon.

This itinerant activity does not prevent it from exerting, at the court of Moulins, then with that of Paris, its talents of writer. In its poems it reveals the Italian influence which it underwent during its visit in Italy. However the means chosen by the poet to disseminate his poems, that to be woven on tapestries depicting the Triumphs of Pétrarque, did not have anything innovator but belonged to the world of the Rhétoriqueurs. Powerful officer, Jean Robertet, besides his role of poet, exerts important a Mécénat. In 1469, in its function of first clerk about Saint-Michel, it entrusts the realization of a miniature, i.e. a representation of the sovereign and the fifteen knights, with the painter Jean Fouquet, who thanks it by depicting it, upright behind the armchair of king Louis XI|11 and holding the register of the order. Friend of Charles of Orleans, contemporary of Villon, he becomes a poet “of good reputation”. One owes him partly of the “Twelve Ladies of Rhetoric”, works in worms and prose whose modern anthologies quote still certain passages:

… I die of thirst near the fountain,
I find soft what must be bitter,
I like and hold expensive all those which make me hatred,
I hate all those which extremely I nozzle to like…

In 1477, it obtains from his/her Alexis brother the transfer of the successional rights on the field “of Bullions” which will pass in its posterity. This field, located in the plain of the Loire, with Mornans, close to Chambéon, includes/understands “house, barn, estables, cover, dovecote, estangs and pescheries, grounds, meadows, heathers and pasqueraiges”; it draws its name “from the bubbling sources whose water runs towards the Loire”; a pond would have kept the name of “Small Robertet” and a burrow of 1494 quotes the “Noble Revenue Robertet” which rose in Magneux-Hauterive.

Jean Robertet marries Madeleine Bohier d' Issoire then, with his death, Louise Chauvet de Montbrison. They will have 7 children, of which two assisted their father of alive sound in his functions of secretary of the king, and inherited its loads; two others will be bishops (Charles and Jacques).

At the end of its life, it makes build with the church of Montbrison the vault where it will be buried near his, as indicates it the Latin inscription affixed to the wall. This vault, started towards 1490, will be completed in 1524 by Florimond; it is remarkable by the blazing decoration of a blasonnée interior door “of azure to the gold band in charge of a half flight of sand”.

François Robertet (wire of Jean and brother of Florimond)

François Robertet, the elder one, is notary secretary of the duke of Bourbon, then secretary of Finances, Baillif of Usson, sior of Bullion. He is known by the historians of art, by an handwritten note of the 1477, to have allowed thereafter authentification of all the work of the Fouquet painter. It is indeed him which was charged by the duke with Bourbon with repurchasing the famous manuscript, known as “Judaïques Activities”, was decorated with charming small landscapes of Touraine, full with truth and naturalness.

This manuscript had been composed at the request of Jacques of Armagnac, duke of Nemours; when this one was stopped like member of a league and was decapitated in 1477, François Robertet de Bullion entered in possession of work and registered in the last page, by signing it, this note: “This book has twelve stories: three first of the illuminator of the duke Jean de Berry, nine others with the hand of the good painter illuminator of the king Louis {{Romanian|XI|11}}, Jean Fouquet, native of Turns”. It is this annotation which made it possible to characterize with certainty the style of Fouquet and to draw up all the catalog of its work.

By a curious chance, and for completely different reasons, the son of Francois, Jean-Rene Robertet, lord of Mothe Jolivette and Charlieu, historians of Article It is also known is by him that the tapestry of the “Dame to the Unicorn” entered the Robertet family. He marries, indeed, Jeanne Viste, cousin of famous “the Lady” of which she will inherit the castles of Chatillon d' Azergues and Bagnols-in-Lyonese, and the famous tapestry.

Florimond 1st Robertet d' Alluye (1458-1527)

It is most known of wire of Jean, that whose brilliant career and the sumptuous existence make image at the time of the Rebirth.

The first of this family of ministers, since Charles {{Romanian|VIII|8}} until Henri {{Romanian|III|3}}, is born under the reign from Louis {{Romanian|XI|11}}. He makes brilliant studies, his humanities with Lyon, his right to Orleans; he travels much, usually speaks four languages, and its heat with work is extreme. His/her father introduces it, early, in this intelligent world, active and strongly Italianized which revolves around the dukes of Bourbon and, by their intermediary, near the kings of France.

He is to advise at the Court of Auditors of Montbrison, when Pierre de Beaujeu, count de Forez and husband of Anne of France, gives it to the king Charles {{Romanian|VIII|8}}, his/her young brother-in-law, who does it treasurer of France and secretary of finances. These secretaries of finances succeeded in 1343, under Philippe de Valois, with the senior officials that Philippe the Beautiful one instituted clerks of the secrecy in 1309, first origin of the Secretaries of State. It is Florimond Robertet which, with the report/ratio of president Hénault, starts to give to its load of secretary finances all his glare and all its authority.

At the 17th century, Antoine Fauvelet of the Fake, compiling his history of the Secretaries of State French, recognizes Florimond Robertet like “the father of the secretaries of Estat” . He justifies this title as follows: “… then that indeed, it is luy which started to give to its employment the degree of rise and being able in which they were finally established”.

The texts trace of him a flattering portrait: “good Florimond”, advised enlightened of the kings, the treasurer of France integrates, the essential ambassador, as famous intendant the “in his time as Sully in his”. Its ambition was extreme and it was undoubtedly one of the bankers of the king, who could not do to call upon him. Still one needed a real courage for it because the tragic examples of its predecessors Jacques Cœur and Semblançay was not to leave its memory.

Its qualities of administrators are quickly noticed and, when Charles {{Romanian|VIII|8}} share for the war of Italy, in 1494, it entrusts heavy responsibilities to him. Indeed, it is in charge of the drafting of extremely important dispatches, either in the capitulation of Naples, or in the negotiations with the pope Alexandre VI. It is counted soon among the “officers of the king”, then “the secretaries of the room”; in 1495, he becomes treasurer of France. The March 9th 1495, it is made knight about Saint-Michel and clerk of the order. Its influence becomes dominating, as the letter testifies some that Anne of France, Dame of Beaujeu, sends of Chantelle, “XIe day of December to the Robertet treasurer”, to require its assistance near the king of him, while adding: “I request from you, Monseigneur the Treasurer, that, of vostre share, me vueillez estre there aydant mondit lord, and I would leave it held well with you, with other pleasures which always have me faitz, and with God, Monseigneur the Treasurer, whom gives you what you wish”.

It takes part in the talks which follow the countryside of Italy, achieves several voyages and turns to the diplomacy. Louis {{Romanian|XII|12}} entrusts many missions to him of which he discharges as well as possible, and who pay to him, according to the diplomatic correspondence, much of money and more still of gifts.

However its load of secretary and treasurer of the king usually retains it at the court where its importance grows unceasingly. He advises certain financial measurements which would have appeared happy (he succeeds in making decrease the taxes by half!) and, in 1505, becomes member of the council of regency, near the dignitaries of the kingdom.

It is at that time, which it makes undertake, with Blois, the construction of a residence seigneuriale, the hotel of Alluye, where one finds all the grace of the French Renaissance.

Thereafter, it acquires the baronnie Husks (which carry always today the weapons of Robertet), then that of Bury-in-Blésois. It is with Bury that it makes to start with architect Italian (there are reasons to think that Léonard de Vinci, remaining with Amboise, was consulted on this subject), the construction of a castle very characteristic of the time of a scale such, that one could compare it only with Chambord. It was more one residence of pleasure which a fortress, one of the first castles of approval of the edges of the Loire.

The advent of François {{Romanian|I|1}} {{er}} carries it to the ridge of the honors and he plays a big role to support the marriage of the king with Claude of France. In reward of its eminent services, François {{Romanian|I|1}} {{er}} appoints it baron d' Alluye and makes him gift of the sums necessary to finish Bury. It takes part in the forwarding of Italy, attends the audiences of the king to the camp of Marignan, with the interview of Bologna.

Exhausted by tirednesses of this animated life, it falls ill and, in 1521 dislocate themselves of part of its functions in favor of his Francois, son godson of the king.

But the disaster of Pavia, with the obligations of regency, causes him an extra work of work; with the queen mother Louise of Savoy, it actively gets busy to join together the ransom of the King.

He studies with her a letter, seized on a mail, which establishes the treason of the Connétable of Bourbon, and contributes largely to the conclusion of peace.

He dies in Paris in November 1527 and François {{Romanian|I|1}} {{er}} makes him make bright funeral with the mode of the time; the funeral praise is pronounced, in the presence of the king and of the queen, by her friend Alleman, bishop of Grenoble, then the body is transported to Blois on a tank “preceded by one hundred burning torches to the weapons by late”. The burial takes place with the vault of Alluye, with the Saint-Honore church of Blois. Clément Marot then writes for him Déploration of 400 worms, which remains one of the most revealing and important poems of its work.

The inventory of the goods will be established in 1532 with Bury; the list is drawn up by its widow of the innumerable gifts, jewels, objets d'art, offered at the time of its various missions. It is amongst other things noted, a “powder pharmacy, drugs, ingredients, baskets, preserves, syrups, and rare gasolines, that the precaution and the charity of Florimond had made come from all costez them, as well cold countries as hot. This pharmacy was visited by Mister de Rabelais, celebrates doctor, who was in admiration of all that he saw”. One also finds “a esquelette labelled tickets of parchments quantify, containing the names of each thing of which the human body is made up”.

There one finds the testimony of the universal curiosity of the men of the Rebirth, opened with all civilizations and all the cultures under the influence of their studies, their voyages, their experiments. He had married, in Amboise, Michelle Gaillard of Longjumeau, much younger than him, girl of a treasurer of finances, who gave him eight child whose destiny was animated enough.

Florimond II Robertet de Fresne (wire of François Robertet, nephew of Florimond Ier)

Florimond Robertet de Fresne is the son of François Robertet de Bullion, secretary of Pierre de Beaujeu, duke of Bourbon and of Drill, husband of Anne of France, which, without having the title of regent, controlled the kingdom during the minority of Charles {{Romanian|VIII|8}}, as had ordered it Louis {{Romanian|XI|11}} while dying. Robertet de Fresne was born in 1531. All its family was attached to the Guise, and it had in their support, not less than with its capacity, the badge favor to be a Secretary of State at 26 years (1557). It cultivates early arts and the letters in spite of its functions which it fills since the reign of Henri {{Romanian|II|2}} until that of Charles {{Romanian|IX|9}}. He dies in only 36 years; but if its career were short, it be not less remarkable by the acts to which he contributes and to which it attaches its name. In 1559, it signs, with the ordinary form: by the opinion of the council , the strange capacity given to the duke of Own way, in the name of François II, after the Conjuration of Amboise, capacity that the virtuous Olivier chancellor, in spite of the words: by the opinion of the council , refuses a long time to sign because it less does not give to the duke of Own way anything than the royal power under the title general lieutenant of the kingdom. In 1560, it is Robertet de Fresne which writes, in the name of François {{Romanian|II|2}}, the letter with the king of bearing Navarre injunction to bring his/her brother the prince of Condé to Orleans. Antoine of Bourbon there obtempère imprudently, since the prince his brother was stopped, as chief of the conspiracy of Amboise, and condemned to death. Florimond II|2 dies at the 36 years age without leaving of child. He passed part of his life to the castle of Beauregard, where a painting of his/her Florimond cousin is always held, in the gallery of the portraits. Fize succeeds to him in the load of Secretary of State.

Claude Robertet d' Alluye (wire of Florimond Ier)

Claude Robertet d' Alluye, baron d' Alluye and of Bury, lord of Blémars and Molineuf, Master of Hotel of the king Henri {{Romanian|II|2}}, general treasurer of France. He marries Anne Briçonnet of which he has six children.

III|3 III|3 Robertet d' Alluye

Florimond III|3 , baron d' Alluye, was governor of Orleans and attache to the service of the duke of Own way then of Catherine de Médicis. It is with it that he writes, in 1560 a letter to tell him its concern to see brooding the wars of religion: “Madam, within one year, fire will be lit even more than it is not”; it was hardly mistaken. He marries, in 1557, Jeanne de Halluyn de Pienne, girl of honor of Catherine de Médicis (she must break her secret marriage with François de Montmorency, to let this last marry Diane de France). He had a child, Etienne Roberdet d' Alluye. Indeed, it is at this time that the name Robertet changed into Roberdet for this branch of the family which is thus the branch heiress of the name and the weapons (of the branch of the large barons d' Alluye of the rebirth) since the two older brothers did not have a descent. He is named Secretary of State, in 1559 with the recommendation of the duke of Own way, under François {{Romanian|II|2}}. His/her cousin Robertet de Fresne succeeded his father-in-law, Clausse of Marchaumont. Thus the two close relatives exerted at the same time and in parallel the loads of Secretary of State in two different departments. It appears that attributions of Robertet d' Alluye were the foreign affairs; but it is friendlier letters and pleasures that businesses. In April 1562, it is, like Robertet de Fresne, envoy in Orleans with the prince of Condé, who, after the massacre of Vassy, seized Orleans, of Blois, of Tours, Angers and the Mans. The prince answers that it will not disarm if Mr. de Guise does not withdraw court, if it is not punished an act of Vassy. In this same year 1562, Robertet d' Alluye is charged by the queen mother and the princes with the house with Lorraine to go to make with the duke of Savoy, to obtain its precarious neutrality, the ill-advised one and ruinous restitution of Turin and the places of the Piedmont that France strengthened with its expenses: but the Own way it want to like the duchess of Savoy, and to be made friends with-outside. In vain the marshal of Bourdillon and the marshal of Brissac were opposed there of all their capacity. In 1563 Robertet is sent in England, to urge the queen Elisabeth to return Le Havre. The queen did not refuse with the restitution, but did not ask anything less than Calais in against exchange. The Baron d' Alluye thus was accepted and badly listened well. A few months afterwards, the constable of Montmorency and a French Army drove out the Count de Warwick and the English. Florimond III|3 of Alluye Secretary of State in 1569 died, two years after his cousin Robertet de Fresne.

François Robertet de Brou

François Robertet de Brou, godson of François {{Romanian|I|1}} {{er}}, succeeds his/her father in the loads of secretary of the king and baillif of the palate. Francoise, her daughter, marries Tristan de Rostaing, but she died of displeasure in 1574 when his/her oldest son perishes of shipwreck while returning from Constantinople.

Francoise Robertet

Francoise Robertet, the last girl of Florimond I|1 er, was married twice, initially in Jean Babou of Bourdaisière, Grand Master of artillery of France, then with Jean d' Aumont, Marshal of France which fought in Ivry, at the sides of Henri {{Romanian|IV|4}}. From its first marriage was born Francoise, who marries in Chartres, in 1559, Antoine d' Estrées, of the big family of Picardy, governor of Paris and Ile de France. Francoise Babou d' Estrées was killed with Issoire, in a riot during the Guerres of the league. She left 9 children; one was admiral, the other general, but most known is Gabrielle d' Estrées (1571-1599).

This back-small-girl of Florimond Robertet became favorite of king Henri IV|4 who did it marchioness of Montceaux, then duchess of Beaufort. Indeed, it met Gabrielle with Alluye and so the king set up the baronnie of Alluye in marquisat. Charming Gabrielle was very attached to the king (“who does not like, does not see, does not hear, knows only of Estrées”) and prepared to marry it when she died suddenly of poisoning at the conclusion of a banquet. It had of king Henri IV|4 three natural children, whose César de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, which will be legitimated, and opens the line of “Large Vendôme”; his/her son and his small sons will continue the tradition of the valorous generals of the Great century. ---- Thus, the direct line of Robertet of the Rebirth always exists but under the name of Roberdet. In addition, of the collateral branches perpetuated until our days the name of Robertet.

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