François Fouquet (1551 - 1590)

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Died 17 Aug 1590 at age 38 in Guéret, Royaume de France

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Biography

François was born about 1551. He was the son of François Fouquet and Perrine le Gaigneur. He was married to Marie de Bénigne (daughter of Claude Bénigne and Claude de Daën). He passed away from the plague in 1590. ^[1]

The Fouquet are a bourgeois family, having made a fortune in the cloth trade. Contrary to what she claimed, she was not noble - her alleged affiliation with the Fouquet des Moulins-Neufs was false. His family name meant "squirrel" in patois of the western regions from where the arms designed by Francis III: silver squirrel crawling Gules.

He is the son of François II Fouquet. As squire, lord of Vauberger, he received a brilliant education and was sent by his father to England "to learn better to know men and things", while his brother Christophe traveled to Germany and Italy. On his return to France, he was a lawyer in parliament and then counselor in the parliament of Paris, March 22, 1578, at the same time as his brother Jean Foucquet. It's a real change for the whole family. François can thus follow legal studies which lead him to the parliamentary consecration: in 1578, he buys the office of adviser to the Parliament of Paris.

He married, around the year 1580, young Marie de Benigne, daughter of noble man Claude de Benigne, lord of Courbons en Brie, killed at the battle of Saint-Denis in November 1567, and Claude de Caen.

In 1589, at the time of the troubles, he retired to Paris and, at the behest of King Henry III, found himself at the translation of the Parliament of Paris into the city of Tours. The following year, he was deputed for the execution of Queen Catherine's will and charged with putting the Duke of Angouleme in possession of the duchy of Lauraguais and the other lands bequeathed to him by his mother. It was then that he died in the city of Guéret, on August 17, 1590 he was dean of the parliament of Paris. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ de Sainte Marie, Père Anselme, and Potier de Courcy. Histoire généalogique Et Chronologique De La Maison Royale De France: Des Pairs, Grands Officiers De La Couronne, Chevaliers, Commandeurs et Officiers....Volume 9. Deuxième partie. p317. Paris, France: Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1879.
2. ↑ François Fouquet or Foucquet, third of the name, diplomat (12 December 1551 - 17 August 1590, Guéret), ancestor of Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of finance under Louis XIV. -- Life Sketch--https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L41Z-TKM