Camillo Marini

Camillo Marini (died 1552) was an Italian soldier and military engineer in French service.

He was a brother of Girolamo Marini of Ancona or Montegibbio near Sassuolo (died 1553), who was also a military engineer.^[1] In French records he was often called "Camille Marin".^[2]

In April 1549, Camillo Marini was recommended to Henri II of France as a replacement for Migliorino Ubaldini and Jérome Mellorin in Scotland during the war known as the Rough Wooing. He had a salary of 100 francs a month, and after consultation between Mary of Guise and Paul de Thermes was appointed Captain of Blackness Castle.^[3] Blackness had become a storehouse for French munitions during the war.^[4]

Marini discussed border fortifications at Jedburgh,^[5] and at Eyemouth and probably Dunbar Castle in 1550 and 1551.^[6]

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After the war with England had ended, Marini was at Jedburgh with Regent Arran during a justice court or ayre on 15 March 1551. He wrote a letter to Mary of Guise, who was in France. Henri II had sent 3,000 livres tournois or écu for repairs or building works. The French diplomat and soldier Henri Cleutin, who was also in Jedburgh, wanted new border fortifications. The location of the planned fort is not known for certain.^[7]

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↑ Christopher Duffy, Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660 (London, 1979), p. 39.
↑ Chabert, Journal du siège de Metz en 1552 (Metz, 1856), p. 63.
↑ Marie-Noëlle Baudouin-Matuszek, "Henri II et les expéditions françaises en Ecosse", Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, 145:2 (Paris, 1987), pp. 348, 369, 378–379.
↑ Marcus Merriman, Rough Wooings (Tuckwell, 2000), p. 322.
↑ Marie-Noëlle Baudouin-Matuszek, "Un ambassadeur en Ecosse au XVIe siècle: Henri Clutin d'Oisel", Revue Historique, 281:1 (569) (January–March 1989), p. 96.
↑ Carlo Promis, "Camillo Marini", in Miscellanea di storia Italiana, vol. 4 (Torino, 1867), pp. 627-34: Pamela Ritchie, Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560 (East Linton, 2002), p. 38: Christopher Duffy, Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660 (London, 1979), pp. 52–54.
↑ Marguerite Wood, Balcarres Papers 1548–1557, 2 (Edinburgh: SHS, 1925), pp. xxx–xxxi, 92–93.
↑ "Mémoires de Vieilleville", Nouvelle collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France, 9 (Paris, 1853), p. 157.
↑ Vincent Carloix, Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux: sire de Vielleville et comte de Duretal, 2 (Paris, 1757), pp. 387–389.
↑ Christopher Duffy, Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660 (London, 1979), p. 52: Chabert, Journal du siège de Metz en 1552 (Metz, 1856), pp. 62–63: Bernard de Salignac, Le siege de Mets, en l'an M. D. LII (Paris, 1553), sig. B.1: See external links.
↑ Michael Wolfe, Walled Towns and the Shaping of France: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 89.
↑ Ludovico Marinelli, "Girolamo e Camillo Marini ingegneri Militari", Atti e memorie della R. Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie di Romagna, 4:18 (Bologna, 1927), p. 161.
↑ Michaud et Poujoulat, "Le Siége de Metz par Bertrand de Salignac", Nouvelle collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France, 8 (Paris, 1854), p. 543.
↑ Chabert, Journal du siège de Metz en 1552 (Metz, 1856), pp. 68–69.
↑ Bernard de Salignac, Le siege de Mets, en l'an M. D. LII (Paris, 1553), sig. O.iii: See external links.

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