29 - HENRY IV. Letter signed “Henry,” countersigned by his Secretary of State Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu, addressed to Hervé de Carbonnel, Lord of Canizy, “captain of fifty men-at-arms of [his] order.” Rouen, April 12, 1593. One folio page, address on the back, perforations from the sealing mechanism, trace of a wax seal on the back.

HENRY IV. Letter signed “Henry,” countersigned by his Secretary of State Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu, addressed to Hervé de Carbonnel, Lord of Canizy, “captain of fifty men-at-arms of [his] order.” Rouen, April 12, 1593. One folio page, address on the back, perforations from the sealing mechanism, trace of a wax seal on the back. “As I have already written to you in my other letters, I BEG YOU to remain with your company for the security of my strongholds in your quarters and TO PREVENT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN THE RAIDS UNDERTAKEN BY MY ENEMIES THAT MIGHT HARM MY AFFAIRS WHEN THEY SEETHE COUNTRY DEPRIVED OF MY OTHER COMPANIES OF MY NOBILITY, WHICH I HAVE SENT TO ASSIST ME IN BATTLE. You are to arrange for them, as much as you can, to set out immediately upon receiving my letters, together with the Count of Thorigny, to come and meet me, just as I have written to them. And, confident that you will not fail in this, I pray to God that He may keep you, Monsieur de Canisy, in His holy and worthy care... ” Secretary of the commands of the future Henry III, who made him one of his secretaries of state, Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu was retained in his position by Henry IV, who entrusted him in 1594 with the King’s Household and the administration of the city and generality of Paris. Hervé de Carbonnel remained a loyal supporter of the crown under Henry III and Henry IV, serving as governor of Saint-Lô and then of Avranches, and as the king’s lieutenant in the bailiwicks of Cotentin and Alençon. In 1588, he married the daughter of Marshal Jacques Goyon de Matignon.