Odet de Selve (c. 1504-1563) was a French diplomat.
He was the son of Jean de Selve, first president at the parliaments of Rouen and Bordeaux, vice-chancellor of Milan, and ambassador of the king of France. In 1540 Odet was appointed councillor at the parlement of Paris and in 1542 at the grand council. In 1546, after the signature of the treaty of Ardres, he was sent on an embassy to England, reporting back on the last days of Henry VIII's reign.[1] In 1550 he was sent to Venice, and afterwards to Rome, where he obtained the election of Pope Paul IV in 1555.[2]
A large number of Odet's diplomatic letters survive and are published. On 31 July 1548, he reported that the success of Pedro de Negro and "Captain Windent" at the siege of Haddington were the talk of the court in London, and that Mary, Queen of Scots had sailed from Scotland to France.[3]
^Robert Hutchinson (historian), p.281, The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
^Chisholm 1911.
^Correspondance Politique de Odet de Selve, Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre (Paris, 1888), pp. 418-9 no. 449.
OdetdeSelve (c. 1504-1563) was a French diplomat. He was the son of Jean deSelve, first president at the parliaments of Rouen and Bordeaux, vice-chancellor...
and Parlement president, and brother of OdetdeSelve. Three other brothers served as diplomats. Georges deSelve was Bishop of Lavaur from 1526 (at age...
and Scottish had withdrawn, Pedro de Negro buried them in three pits. Somerset told a French diplomat OdetdeSelve about the exploit, or "belle hystoyre"...
OdetdeSelve, heard from a French mercenary serving on the English side that it was almost as impregnable as Turin. Somerset even showed Odetde Selve...
S. Brewer & R. H. Brodie, 1965 reprint. Correspondance Politique deOdetdeSelve, (1888), French Ambassador in London Elder, John, 'A Proposal for uniting...
Parker Soc. ii. 612 State Papers, Henry VIII, xi. 181 sqq. Corr. Pol deOdetdeSelve, passim Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, ed. 1685 Inquisitio post mortem, Edward...
1546–1548 : OdetdeSelve 1553–1556 : Antoine, 1st comte de Noailles Oct 1556–1560 : Gilles de Noailles (as French agent) Feb 1560–1562 : Michel de Sèvre (Ambassador...
the castle, was begun by Regent Arran's men. The French ambassador OdetdeSelve knew about the mine by 10 November, from an 18-day-old eye-witness account...
from the Pauncey (correctly the Pensée, sometimes called the Pansy). OdetdeSelve, the French ambassador in London, gained a detailed account from Nicolas...
State Papers, Spanish, 1542–3, p. 504. Archbold 1899, p. 154 cites OdetdeSelve, Corr. Pol. passim. Archbold 1899, pp. 154–155. Archbold 1899, p. 155...
preacher and theologian (born 1515) Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac, courtier (born 1505) OdetdeSelve, diplomat (born c.1504) Jean Poldo d'Albenas...
are published from the French Archives in Correspondence Politique deOdetdeSelve (Paris, 1888), pp. xviii, 481–484 no. 528 & footnote. CSP Spain, vol...
Toulouse had many notable archbishops: Gabriel de Gramont (1533–34), cardinal in 1530; Odetde Châtillon, Cardinal de Coligny (1534–1550), who became a Calvinist...
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