He was poisoned while fortifying Nantes for King Henry III of France during the French Wars of Religion De Craponne was born in 1526 in Salon-de-Provence.

(:fr:)[better source needed] In 1554, a decree of the Parliament of Provence (located in Aix-en-Provence), conferred on him the right to divert the waters of the river Durance to Salon-de-Provence, and from there to the sea.

The country was plagued by the turmoil of the Wars of Religion, and Henry's authority was undermined by foreign powers: the Catholic League, the Protestant Huguenots and the Malcontents.

[5] Adam de Craponne was the unwitting, underlying cause of a notorious case in French contract law that still reverberates 450 years after his death.

Slowly this payment became derisory and out of proportion to the cost of maintenance, so the heirs of Adam de Craponne were granted an increase by the lower court.