François de Civille

[4] He sent gifts of dried fruit, apples, and pears to Ursula St Barbe and Lettice Knollys, the wives of Walsingham and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

With Oudard de Jolitemps, he brought jewels from the Duchess of Bouillon in August 1584, visited the Earl of Huntingdon in York in September,[6] and in October Francis Walsingham sent him a diamond ring.

[7][8] François and his wife, Jehanne du Mouchet, and family came to Rye in July 1585 and were listed as Protestant refugees in London in January 1586.

[11] An English observer at the Scottish court Thomas Fowler wrote that Civille and Jérôme Groslot, Sieur de l’Isle encouraged Edinburgh merchants who dealt with France to support the Navarre marriage.

Civille was given 1,200 merks on 11 September 1589[15] and left Scotland from Dundee accompanied by James Colville of Easter Wemyss and 1,500 Scottish troops.

[17] According to David Moysie the 1,500 soldiers had left Scotland in June 1589 [18] Civille wrote to James VI from Dieppe on 22 August 1592.