Eustace Chapuys (1489–1556) served as the Imperial ambassador to England from 1529 until 1545 and is best known for his extensive and detailed correspondence.
He was born in Annecy in Savoy. He attended the University of Turin from 1507, staying there for at least 8 years. In 1517 he became an official of the diocese of Geneva and subsequently served the Duke of Savoy and Charles de Bourbon. In 1527 he entered the service of the Holy Roman Empero...
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Eustace Chapuys (1489–1556) served as the Imperial ambassador to England from 1529 until 1545 and is best known for his extensive and detailed correspondence.
He was born in Annecy in Savoy. He attended the University of Turin from 1507, staying there for at least 8 years. In 1517 he became an official of the diocese of Geneva and subsequently served the Duke of Savoy and Charles de Bourbon. In 1527 he entered the service of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
After going to Savoy as ambassador, he went to England in September 1529 to take over the post of resident ambassador there from Don Iñigo de Mendoza, a post that had been rather unstably occupied since the forced withdrawal of Louis of Praet in 1525. Chapuys's legal background made him an ideal candidate to defend Henry VIII's wife Catherine of Aragon (who was also an aunt of Emperor Charles V) against the legal proceedings that historians call the "Divorce Crisis" and which led, eventually, to the English rejection of Papal...
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