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Antoine Brun by Jean Baptist Floris (1648)
Engraving of Antoine Brun
Antoine Brun
ambassador
MonarchPhilip IV of Spain
Personal details
Born(1599-06-29)June 29, 1599
Dole, Franche-Comté
DiedJanuary 2, 1654(1654-01-02) (aged 54)
Educationcivil law
Alma materUniversity of Dole

Anthoine Brun (1599–1654) was a Burgundian diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain who played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Peace of Münster (1648).[1]

Thereafter he became the king's first resident ambassador in the newly recognised Dutch Republic. He took up residence in The Hague in mid-1649, his first official despatch as ambassador being dated 29 June 1649.[2] In 1650 he concluded a naval treaty with the Dutch on behalf of the king.[3]

He was also a man of letters, publishing a French translation of a selection of the letters of Justus Lipsius: Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse (1650).

Publications

References

  1. ^ Fritz Dickmann, Der Westfälische Frieden (Münster, 1959), p. 198: "Viele wollten allerdings das Hauptverdienst an ihr dem Burgunder Antonius Brun zuschreiben, dem geschickten und kenntnisreichen Parlamentsrat aus Dôle, der sich als Verteidiger seiner Vaterstadt gegen Condé auch militärischen Ruhm erworben hatte. Dieser Mann muß sich vorteilhaft von seinen Berufsgenossen unterschieden haben. Contarini fand, daß er zwar ein dottore sei, aber doch auch ein Weltmann und Soldat. Auch als Redner und Schriftsteller galt er etwas." (citing Contarini, in Fontes rerum Austriacum Abt. II, Bd. 26, p. 296f.
  2. ^ J. & P. Lefèvre, Inventaire des Archives de l'Ambassade d'Espagne à la Haye (1932; reprinted Brussels, 1991), p. 80.
  3. ^ 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).