and entered into the circle of his favourites, he was made a Gentilhomme de la chambre (gentleman of the chamber) then a Chambellan (chamberlain). By...
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was a French soldier and diplomat as well as a long-serving gentilhomme de la chambre to Francis I. He acted as ambassador to England on a number of...
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position of First Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the king (Premier gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi). This illustrious family of great antiquity descends from...
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was made a gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (gentleman of the king's chamber) granting him a degree of privileged access to the king. La Rochepot accompanied...
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cupbearer) before becoming a gentilhomme de la chambre (gentleman of the king's chamber). He was infuriated when Jeanne de Cossé, who had been due to marry...
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Religion. The third son of Guillaume de Balsac and Louise d'Humières. By 1571 he had become a gentilhomme de la chambre to the brother of the king, the duke...
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Antoine de La Fosse (alias Sieur d'Aubigny; 1653 or 1658 – 2 November 1708) Premier gentilhomme de la Chambre [fr], was a French playwright who wrote...
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acting as a firm royalist in Champagne. To this end he became a gentilhomme de la chambre for the king of Navarre in 1573. The following year, Nevers saw...
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crées de 1815 à 1890, et des Titres Pontificaux, nomination de Louis-Désiré, Marquis de Montholon-Sémonville (1785–1863), Gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi...
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service of Alençon into his own service, granting him the role of gentilhomme de la chambre du roi that same year, doubling his income. After the Peace of...
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