Pierre Jeannin (1542–1623)
was a French
statesman, otherwise known as a surintendant des finances (Finance Superintendent). In 1573 he married
Anne Gueniot and had one daughter, Charlotte Jeannin.
Career
He was born at
Autun
Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Ro ...
. A pupil of the great jurist
Jacques Cujas
Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) (Toulouse, 1522 – Bourges, 4 October 1590) was a French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or ''mos gallicus'' school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and conce ...
at
Bourges, he was an advocate at
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
by 1569 and became councillor and then president of the
parlement of
Burgundy. He unsuccessfully opposed the
massacre of St Bartholomew in his province. As councillor to
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, he sought to reconcile him with King
Henry IV of France
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.
After the victory of Fontaine-Française (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his council and in 1602 named him
intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the reign, negotiated the
Treaty of Lyon with
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel I ( it, Carlo Emanuele di Savoia; 12 January 1562 – 26 July 1630), known as the Great, was the Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630. He was nicknamed (, in context "the Hot-Headed") for his rashness and military aggression.
Being ...
, and the defensive alliance between France and the
United Netherlands in 1608. As
Superintendent of Finances under King
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
, be tried to establish harmony between the king and the
queen mother
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,
Marie de' Medici.
References
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Berger de Xivrey, ''Lettres missives de Henri IV.'' (in the ''Collection inédité pour l'histoire de France''), t. v. (1850)
*
Pierre Saumaise, ''Eloge sur la vie de Pierre Janin'' (Dijon, 1623)
*
Sainte-Beuve, ''Causeries du lundi'', t. x. (May 1854)
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1542 births
1623 deaths
People from Autun
French diplomats
French Ministers of Finance