Jean Champhuon, sieur du Ruisseau

Jean or Jehan Champhuon, sieur du Ruisseau was a French lawyer and an administrator and chamberlain of the estates of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Nau also asked him to buy some jewellery and send it to him in a sealed package (une petite boite fermee et cachetee); a pair of bracelets in the latest fashion, and a diamond or emerald shaped like a heart or triangle.

[14] Letters from Mary in code, identified in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and newly deciphered in 2023 include her responses to these events.

[16] On 20 March 1586, at Chartley, Jérôme Pasquier and Bastian Pagez witnessed a document in which Jacques Gervais, Mary's surgeon, placed his affairs in the hands of Jean Champhuon, sieur du Ruisseau.

[17] A note in an inventory of Mary's possessions at Chartley Castle in August 1586 mentions that Du Rousseau had recently sent a parcel of linen.

[18] In September 1583, Mary arranged for Du Ruisseau to have an audience with the Duke of Guise to discuss possible plans in response to the Raid of Ruthven in Scotland.