First letter from Suleiman to Francis I 1526

The

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noble called by the French Jean Frangipani was sent by the agents of

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as ambassador to the

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, following the

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(February 1525) which had been a disaster for the French. With the King of France imprisoned in Madrid, Frangipani was commissioned to carry an official letter encouraging

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I (; , ; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver () in his own realm, was the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman sultan between 1520 a ...

to attack the

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. The response he received was the opening of the long-standing

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. Francis's return letter was carried by another. Though François-Emmanuel Guignard comte de Saint-Priest and Charles Henri Auguste Schefer set Jean Frangipani at the head of their exhaustive list of French ambassadors and ministers at the

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under the

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, they admit that nothing is known of his figure save that he found himself in

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with the Ottoman forces at the time of Pavia. Jean Frangipani's relation to the medieval Frangipani nobles of Rome is unknown.For members of the Frangipani family, see Frangipani (disambiguation).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frangipani, Jean 16th-century Croatian nobility

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