Claude Bouton, Lord of Corbaron (c. 1473University of Warsaw - 30 June 1556Histoire généalogique des comtes de Chamilly de la maison de Bouton, au duché de Bourgogne, dans le bailliage de Chalon, issuë de celle de Jauche du duché de Brabant. Justifiée par divers titres particuliers d'églises, tombeaux, épitaphes... par Pierre Palliot) was a courtier, poet, and diplomat for the House of Habsburg.Un agent politique de Charles-Quint, le Bourguignon Claude Bouton, seigneur de Corberon /Eugène Beauvois Slatkine, 1971 He was mainly based in Belgium.
Family He was married in 1514 to Jacqueline of Lannoy, granddaughter of Baldwin of Lannoy.Mémoires de Jean D'Hollander, chanoine de Sainte Waudru, sur la révolte des Ganthois en l'an 1539, contre Charle V. empereur des Romains & monarque des Espagnes, leur légitime seigneur, écrit l' an 1547
Career Bouton had several appointments in his career.
As well as being a diplomat for the Hapsburgs, he was also;University of Warsaw
a member of the Council of State of Emperor Charles V. Leiden University website Captain of the Guard and Master of the Household to Philip I of Castile, son of Emperor Maximilian Captain of the Guard and Master of the Household to Ferdinand of Austria guardian of Willem; Prince of Orange in 1544.Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis, Volume 56/epartement Geschiedenis van de Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius., 1973 a member of the court of Marie of Hungary.
He is also the author of the Mirouer des Dames, written between 1517 and 1523.
Bouton had an important collection of books, amongst them the Douze dames de rhétorique.
Burial Bouton is buried inside the Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Sablon in Brussels. He had a private chapel constructed for his grave. He and his wife's grave is known for its unusual depiction of the couple, depicting them as skeletal remains.
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