Jean Hotman (goldsmith)
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Jean or Jehan Hotman (died 1555) was a Parisian goldsmith who worked for King Francis I of France.
He was a son of the goldsmith Guillaume Hotman. Pierre Mangot and Jean Hotman probably supplied the many gifts given by Francis I to Henry VIII and his courtiers at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.[1] Thibault Hotman, another goldsmith serving the French court, was his brother.[2].
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Hotman made or provided a number of diplomatic gifts including gifts for John Clerk, Bishop of Bath, and the retinue of Cardinal Wolsey in 1527,[3] a gold cup presented to the English diplomat Thomas Boleyn in 1534,[4] and gold and silver gilt vessels given to the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk at the Calais interview in October 1532, and gilt plate to Francis Bryan an envoy to France in 1532.[5] He provided cupboards of silver gilt plate given by Francis I to the English envoy Francis Poyntz in November 1527.[6] and to David Beaton, a Scottish diplomat who negotiated the marriages of James V,[7]
Some payments to Hotman were made to his factor or commis Antoine le Bossu. Jean Hotman had premises at the Pont au Change in Paris.[8] He purchased several portions of a property in Paris known as the Maison des Balances in the Rue de la Calandre from booksellers.[9]