Robert Mangot
Robert Mangot was a French goldsmith who supplied the royal court and Mary, Queen of Scots.
He was a son of the goldsmith Pierre Mangot, who worked for Francis I of France.[1] Works attributed to Pierre Mangot include the "Royal Clock Salt" now owned by the London Goldsmith's Company which once belonged to Henry VIII of England.[2]
Robert Mangot was based in Paris. Mangot attended the funeral of Henry II of France as a royal goldsmith.[3] He was listed as a goldsmith in the household of Charles IX in 1577.
In 1551 he supplied a gem of green jasper spotted with red, known as a heliotrope, engraved with the figure of an Indian.[4]
An account for the households of the royal children in 1551 includes some of his bills. The young Mary, Queen of Scots, had jewels repaired and refashioned by Parisian jewellers including Robert Mangot, Jean Doublet and Mathurin Lussault. Mangot made gold paternoster beads and "gerbes" for her rosaries. He provided a girdle or belt and a descending chain, made in Spanish fashion. He also supplied 1,500 gold buttons to decorate bands of silver embroidery that edged a black velvet gown.[5]
References
- ^ Thierry Crépin-Leblond, Marie Stuart: le destin français d'une reine d'Écosse, (Paris, 2008), p. 56: Germain Bapst, Histoire des joyaux de la couronne de France, 1 (Paris, 1889), p. 56.
- ^ Elizabeth Cleland, The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (New York, 2023), p. 104 fig. 36: Ilaria Toesca, 'Silver in the Time of François I: A New Identification', Apollo, 90 (October, 1969), pp. 292–297.
- ^ Funérailles du roy Henry II (Paris, 1869), p. 62.
- ^ Léon, marquis de Laborde, Notice des émaux exposés dans les galeries du Musée du Louvre, 2 (Paris, 1853), p. 349.
- ^ Thierry Crépin-Leblond, Marie Stuart: le destin français d'une reine d'Écosse, (Paris, 2008), pp. 56, 70: Alphonse de Ruble, La première jeunesse de Marie Stuart (Paris, 1891), 37-40, 297-300: See external links for the passages transcribe by Ruble.