Summary of Lauren Mackay's Inside the Tudor Court

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#1 The search for Chapuys the man begins in the charming old city of Annecy in south-eastern France, near the border with Switzerland. He was born in 1499. The exact year of his birth is uncertain, as we lack a birth certificate.

#2 Annecy is a popular winter gateway to the ski resorts of the French Alps. It is a picture-postcard medieval center, with the town’s main museum, La Musée-château d’Annecy, housing the only known portraits of Eustace Chapuys.

#3 There are four portraits of Eustache Chapuys: one in the Annecy museum, one in the Lycée Berthollet, and two others that are stored in the Académie Florimontane in Annecy. They all show a different-looking Chapuys, with different facial features and different robes.

#4 Eustace Chapuys was the son of Louis and Guigone Chapuys. He was a notary and a municipal official, and he had a law degree. He was also ambitious and career-minded, and he became a diplomat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669397755

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#1

The search for Chapuys the man begins in the charming old city of Annecy in south-eastern France, near the border with Switzerland. He was born in 1499. The exact year of his birth is uncertain, as we lack a birth certificate.

#2

Annecy is a popular winter gateway to the ski resorts of the French Alps. It is a picture-postcard medieval center, with the town’s main museum, La Musée-château d’Annecy, housing the only known portraits of Eustace Chapuys.

#3

There are four portraits of Eustache Chapuys: one in the Annecy museum, one in the Lycée Berthollet, and two others that are stored in the Académie Florimontane in Annecy. They all show a different-looking Chapuys, with different facial features and different robes.

#4

Eustace Chapuys was the son of Louis and Guigone Chapuys. He was a notary and a municipal official, and he had a law degree. He was also ambitious and career-minded, and he became a diplomat.

#5

Eustace was born into a middle-class family in Annecy, France. He was charming and had great enthusiasm for civic projects, but he could never quite focus on the task at hand.

#6

Eustace was to follow a different path from his father, who died when he was in his early teens. He was educated in Annecy and eventually accepted by the prestigious Turin University. He received a doctorate of civil and canon law in 1515, but whether in Turin or Rome is disputed.

#7

Eustace’s European social circle was impressive. He became an integral part of the episcopal administration of Geneva, and well reputed as an eloquent orator and Latin stylist. He gained valuable experience conducting conciliatory diplomatic missions to a number of Swiss cities, including Fribourg and Bern.

#8

Eustace had a close relationship with the German reformer, humanist, literary scholar and researcher of the occult Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. They first met at Pavia between 1512 and 1515. Agrippa lectured at Pavia and Turin, where Eustace had studied.

#9

Eustace had been active in Genevan politics as part of the episcopal administration, and he was most concerned about the duke’s threat. The duke had executed the Bishop of Geneva’s vicar for treason in 1519.

#10

In 1529, Emperor Charles V chose Eustace Chapuys to replace his ambassador to England, Spanish nobleman and clergyman Inigo de Mendoza. Chapuys’ mission was to support the queen, Katherine of Aragon, against Henry VIII’s attempt to divorce her.

#11

Tudor scheming prevented Henry from meeting with Katherine alone, and he even had to communicate with her through a