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Seyssel, Claude de

(also Claude de Seissel). Born circa 1450 in Aix-les-Bains, department of Savoie; died May 30, 1520, in Turin. French state figure and historian.

Seyssel carried out important diplomatic missions while in the service of the French king Louis XII. In 1509 he became the bishop of Marseille. In 1517 he entered the service of the duke of Savoy. A zealous defender of absolute monarchy, Seyssel wrote works justifying the actions of Louis XII.

WORKS

Les Louanges du roy louis XII. Paris, 1508.
La Monarchie de France. Paris, 1961.

REFERENCE

Vainshtein, O. L. Zapadnoevropeiskaia srednevekovaia istoriografiia. Moscow-Leningrad, 1964. Pages 366–70.

References in periodicals archive

War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France: Claude de Seyssel and the Language of Politics in the Renaissance.

Rebecca Ard Boone. War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France: Claude de Seyssel and the Language of Politics in the Renaissance

The foundation of sixteenth-century French political theory was Claude de Seyssel's Monarchy of France, which was presented to Francois I in 1515, two years after Machiavelli wrote his Prince and a year before Erasmus's and Castiglione's manuals of princely behavior appeared.

Cleric-diplomats and the sixteenth-century French state

Shennan's view, grounded in Claude de Seyssel's theory, that "royal sovereignty and its limitations existed together and that one did not diminish the other" (104), while holding on to Robert Knecht's more absolutist reading.

Glenn Richardson. Renaissance Monarchy: the Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V

See also Claude de Seyssel, La Monarchie de France (1515), 2.2.

The Renaissance novella as justice

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