Anthoine Brun (1599–1654), baron d'Aspremont, was a Burgundian (

Franche-Comté Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou dialect, Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; ; also ; ; all ) is a cultural and Provinces of France, historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of France, departments of Doub ...

) diplomat in the service of

Philip IV of Spain Philip IV (, ; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the ...

Life

Brun was born on 29 June 1599, the son of Claude Brun, advocate in the Parlement of Dole. He studied law at the universities of Dole and

Bourges Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...

. In 1632 he was appointed procurator general of the Parlement of Dole. He was a leading figure in organising resistance to the French invasion of

in 1636. Brun was appointed to the Supreme Council of Flanders in 1642. As a representative of the king of Spain, he played an important role in the negotiations leading to the

Peace of Münster The Peace of Münster, signed on 30 January 1648, was a treaty between Philip IV of Spain and the States-General of the Netherlands, Lords States General of the Dutch Republic. Negotiated in parallel to, but not part of, the Peace of Westphalia, ...

(1648). Thereafter he became the king's first resident ambassador in the newly recognised

Dutch Republic The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands ...

. He took up residence in The Hague in mid-1649, his first official despatch as ambassador being dated 29 June 1649. In 1650 he concluded a naval treaty with the Dutch on behalf of the king.''Traitté de la Marine, Faict, conclu, & arresté à la Haye en Hollande, le dix-septième du mois de Decembre 1650 entre Messire Antoine Brun, Ambassadeur ordinaire du Seigneur Roi d'Espagne d'une, & les Sieurs Deputés des Seigneurs Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas d'autre part'' (The Hague, 1663). He was also a man of letters, publishing a French translation of a selection of the letters of

Justus Lipsius Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; October 18, 1547 – March 23, 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatibl ...

: ''Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse'' (1650). He died 2 January 1654.

Publications

''Le Manifeste d'Antoine Brun (1638)''
edited by Emile Longin (Vesoul, 1905).
''Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse''
translated by Antoine Brun (Lyon, 1650).

References

Burgundian people of the Eighty Years' War Ambassadors of Spain Ambassadors to the Dutch Republic Latin–French translators 1599 births 1654 deaths 17th-century translators {{Spain-diplomat-stub