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ESTRADES, GODEFROI, COMTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESTRADES, GODEFROI, See also:COMTE D' (1607-1686), See also:French diplomatist and See also:marshal, was See also:born at See also:Agen. He was the son of See also:Francois d'Estrades (d. 1653), a 'See also:partisan of See also:Henry IV., and See also:brother of See also:Jean d'Estrades, See also:bishop of See also:Condom. He became a See also:page to See also:Louis XIII., and at the See also:age of nineteen was sent on a See also:mission to See also:Maurice of See also:Holland. In 1646 he was named See also:ambassador extra-See also:ordinary to Holland, and took See also:part in the conferences at See also:Munster. Sent in 1661 to See also:England, he obtained in 1662 the restitution of See also:Dunkirk. In 1667 he negotiated the treaty of See also:Breda with the See also:king of See also:Denmark, and in 1678 the treaty of See also:Nijmwegen, which ended the See also:war with Holland. Independently of these See also:diplomatic See also:missions, he took part in the See also:principal See also:campaigns of Louis XIV., in See also:Italy (1648), in See also:Catalonia (1655), in Holland (1672); and was created marshal of See also:France in 1675. He See also:left Lettres, memoires el negociations en qualile d'ambassadeur en Hollande depuis 1663jusqu' en 1668, of which the first edition in 1709 was followed by a nine-See also:volume edition (See also:London (the See also:Hague), 1743). Of the sons of Godefroi d'Estrades, Jean Francois d'Estrades was ambassador to See also:Venice and See also:Piedmont; Louis, See also:marquis d'Estrades (d. 1711), succeeded his See also:father as See also:governor of Dunkirk, and was the father of Godefroi Louis, comte d'Estrades,See also:lieutenant- See also:general, who was killed at the See also:siege of See also:Belgrade, 1717. See See also:Felix Salomon, Frankreichs Beziehungen zu See also:dens Scottischen Aufstand (1637-1640), containing an excursus on the falsification of the letters of the comte d'Estrades; Philippe See also:Lauzun, Le Marechal d'Estrades (Agen, 1896).

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