Laurent de Gorrevod

1470 – Barcelona, 6 August 1529), was a French-Savoyard nobleman who was a confidant and envoy of Margaret of Austria, Governess of the Habsburg Netherlands.

He also became a confidant of Emperor Charles V, who granted him in 1518 a license that marked the start of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa and the Spanish colonies in America.

From his ancestors, Laurent de Gorrevod inherited the title of baron of Marney and Montenai and lands in Bresse.

[2] In August 1518 he received from Charles V the first Asiento de negros, which dealt with the deportation of 4,000 Africans to the Spanish Americas.

He acted as Charles V's mediator in the conflict between the archbishop and the city of Besançon, was sent to London in 1520 and reported to Margaret of Austria from the Diet of Worms in the spring of 1521.