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unusual facts about Michel de Castelnau


Michel de Castelnau

Paul having died just before his arrival, Castelnau used his influence in favor of the election of Pius IV.


Lancelot Voisin de La Popelinière

As Kenneth Andrews has commented, this thesis cannot be proved, and has evidently failed to convince some other authorities, but it must be taken seriously in the light of references to Francesco’s project contained in the dispatches of Michel de Castelnau de la Mauvissière, French ambassador in London, during the period 1577-1580 when he reported on the voyages of John Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert and Francis Drake.


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