Guillaume Bochetel
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Guillaume Bochetel, seigneur de Sassy, Brouillamenon, Laforest-Thaumyer (died 1558) was a statesman and diplomat of the French Renaissance during the reigns of François I and Henry II of France.
Bochetel descended from a family which had its origins in Reims, Champagne. The family had moved to Berry when his great grandfather had married Jean Bochetel, the sister of Jacques Cœur, then great financier of King Charles VII of France. His parents were Bernardin Bochetel and Catherine Babouin, his paternal grandparents Francis and Marie Bochetel Pellorde.
He married Mary Morvilliers, Lady of the Sourdiere, and their children included:[1]
- Bernardin who became bishop of Rennes in 1558 and abbot of St. Lawrence Auxerrois
- Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, his heir, who became an outstanding diplomat
- Marie, who married in 1542 Claude de l'Aubespine, Lord of Hauterives, Baron of Chateauneuf-sur-Cher and Secretary of State. [5]
- Jean
- Jeanne, who married Jacques Bourdin Secretary of State
His children had the same tutors as the royal children including Jacques Amyot and Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples.
In 1540 he bought from Jean Courtois Breuilhamenon the lordship of the lands in Berry. Guillaume died in 1558.
