Forced, by the terms of his peace with the ligue to fight the Protestants, Henri's mother Catherine and Lanssac would again attempt negotiations in 1587 to resolve the new civil war diplomatically, without result.

[57] The establishment of this peace did not end unease in England as to French designs as regarded Scotland, indeed Lanssac was asked by the earl of Warwick whether Henri referred to the young Scottish queen Mary as his daughter.

The measures that had been taken during the war to prejudice the families of Strozzi, Orsini and Fregosi who had allied themselves with the French king Henri (including sentences of execution and confiscations) were similarly abolished for a two-year period.

[71] Lanssac arrived in the city on 30 July, on his way back from his extraordinary mission in Rome, with money, expressions of Henry's gratitude and assurances of French support for the uprising of the inhabitants.

[37] While the naturalised French fuorusciti Strozzi (sent into the peninsula at the request of Montmorency) worked to raise soldiers with money advanced by Henry, Lanssac and his protector the |cardinal du Bellay attempted to convince the Pope not to back an Imperial invasion.

Lanssac looked to the French court for a resolution (though he hoped to do so in such a way that would not turn the ire of the Lorraine-Guise family on him - Guise was married to Anne d'Este): he covertly asked the sécretaire Beauregard to alert Montmorency and sent a letter to the cardinal de Tournon.

[154] The gran priore would not allow this to stand and on 6 August 1555 his ships were seized from Papal protection at Civitavecchia by members of the Sforza family who took them to Naples via Gaeta, i.e. placing them under Imperial control.

The conclusion of their discussion was that the duca di Parma would assume the position of king Henri's representative in Tuscany, that he would raise troops and as soon as was practical attempt to seize places on the border with Siena.

By this agreement, in return for large subsidies from France, Paul promised to invest both the Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Naples in the hands of sons of the French king Henri.

Henri would be declared the defender of the Catholic religion and Papacy in return for protecting the latter, that the duc d'Orléans would enjoy sovereignty over Milan, Piemonte, and Savoia, that Naples and Sicilia would be united with France and that Florence, Siena and Pisa would be restored to independence with the Medici family driven from Tuscany.

[169] Henri would be expected to campaign into Italy with an army of 12,000, invading either Naples or Tuscany at the Pope's discretion, he would see the Spanish driven from the peninsula and that no separate peace agreements would be tolerated without mutual consent.

However, Henri's wife queen Catherine, the maréchal de Saint-André and the king's mistress Diane held the line firm at the French court favour of war.

Guise waited impatiently for the Pope to provide the legitimation for an invasion of Naples, by investing the kingdom in the hands of a son of Henry II however Paul prevaricated on taking this step.

[212] Cloulas argues this conseil was a polite fiction, only meeting once properly during the reign of Francis II (for the Assembly of Notables in August 1560), while real business was conducted by the Lorraine-Guise administration elsewhere.

[217] United with her in a foreign kingdom by January 1560, Lanssac then played a leading role in helping her adjust to the customs of the Spanish court alongside the French ambassador in the country the bishop of Limoges.

Sometime before the death of Francis, Lanssac was entrusted by Catherine with heading out to deliver a letter to the disgraced connétable de Montmorency, concerning the composition of the coming regency government for her next eldest son the young duc d'Orléans (who became king Charles IX.

[225] Lanssac had a role to play in the modest funeral accorded to the dead king, accompanying the remains alongside the seigneur de La Brosse and the bishop of Senlis to the Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans.

Lhoumeau speculates that while with the duca di Savoia, Lanssac would have discussed with him the restitution of the remaining French held positions in Piemonte (Torino, Chieri, Chivasso and Villanova d'Asti).

[248] Lanssac attempted to use the familial connection between the member of the French court Louis de Gonzague and his uncle cardinale di Gonzaga who held the presidency of the council of Trento, to gain more accommodations for France.

[261] In the final sessions of the council of Trento, the three diplomats made the queen's policy of religious moderation, and obedience to the peace edict of Amboise (which had brought the civil war in France to a close) clear.

He therefore liaised with the prévôt des marchands (provost of the merchants - de facto mayor of Paris) about the efforts he was undertaking to see the submission of privately held weapons in October 1563.

[39] Alongside the bishop of Limoges, Lanssac would lead the negotiations with England to establish a settlement between the two countries now that Le Havre had been reconquered and the chancelier L'Hôpital had declared English rights to Calais to be forfeit.

[21] Catherine's instructions to Lanssac made it clear that he was to impress upon Philip that Charles was satisfied with the queen of Navarre as she had restored the practice of Catholic religion in her territories, and was responding to a royal request to come to court.

He was charged with joining with the baron de Jarnac the governor of La Rochelle and Aunis to work to ensure the people of the governate showed more obedience to the pacification edict.

The magistrates of the city were reminded of their obligations to the pacification edict, and he implored both the Protestant and Catholic clergy to avoid incendiary sermons and live in good peace with their neighbours even if they were another religion.

Lanssac was sent to the royal camp which was under the command of the king's brother the duc d'Anjou at Nemours and was informed there was no intention to stop the Protestant army from achieving juncture with a German force under the authority of von Pfalz-Simmern.

[294] As a result of the lack of funds, as early as December, the Protestants reached out to begin negotiations with the crown, sending Téligny to the court with the prince de Condé's proposal for peace.

[372] By this agreement it was declared that the cardinal de Bourbon was the proper successor to Henri for the throne upon his death, and that king Philip would provide 600,000 écus to the ligueur party in France.

Lanssac was charged by Henri with enquiring of Guise which army he desired command of (one at the centre of the kingdom, one to guard the frontier against German intervention and a final one to go against the king of Navarre).

[382] Henri again turned to Lanssac for assistance with the passage of a fiscal edict through the examinations of the chambre des comptes in September 1587 to help support the costs of the royal armies.