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    in the new king's household as either an écuyer or échanson (squire or cupbearer) before becoming a gentilhomme de la chambre (gentleman of the king's chamber)...
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    the king and entered into the circle of his favourites, he was made a Gentilhomme de la chambre (gentleman of the chamber) then a Chambellan (chamberlain)...
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    of many royal offices. While Charny was left as grand écuyer, his subordinate the premier écuyer was changed from the seigneur de Fontaines to the seigneur...
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  • granted him the role of écuyer in his household. He would not serve as an écuyer to the new king for long, serving first as a gentilhomme de la chambre du roi...
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  • the king's brother Alençon, as his cousin had, serving the prince as his écuyer d'écurie. It was through this that he came to the attention of the king...
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  • généalogique des Courtin , par le Vte Oscar de Poli,... p. 205. Pierre Courtin, écuyer, seigneur de l'Hostel-du-Bois, en Brie, archer des Ordonnances du Roi èn...
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    (vers 1510-vers 1578), seigneur de Maillebois 1563-1569 : Jean de Losse, écuyer, seigneur de Bannes 1569-1599 : Joachim de Châteauvieux (1545-1615), Governor...
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    de l'ordre de Saint-Michel (knights of the order of Saint-Michel) and gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (gentleman of the king's chamber) were ordered to...
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    around Évreux His father Valéran d'Espinay was a gentilhomme de la chambre for Henri II as well as his écuyer d'écurie and governor of Louviers. He would serve...
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    serving as governor of the town of Guise in Picardie. He served as a gentilhomme de la chambre and captain in the gendarmerie, dying in 1564. The family...
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    France, Marshal of France and Grand Master of France. Léonor Chabot, Grand Écuyer of France. Guillaume II, vicomte de Joyeuse, lieutenant général of the government...
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  • Qualifications nobiliaires, titres de noblesse, ecuyer, chevalier, noble homme, messire, gentilhomme (in French) Jaurgain, Les Trois Mousquétaires, pp...
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  • reggere di ogni cavallo, 16th century • L'ecuirie du S. Federic Grison gentilhomme napolitain, translation by François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, 1559 1559...
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