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List of Lords Deputies General^[1] of the Protestant Churches of France, who have resided at the Courts of Henri IV., Loius XIII., and Louis XIV.

Reign of Henri IV.
	Names.		Remarks.
1.	Lord de St. Germains.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1601, at Saint Foy, by a political assembly. They were re-elected in 1603, by the National Synod of Gap.
2.	Josia Merciar, Lord des Bordes.
1.	Odet La Noue, Lord de la Noue.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Probably elected in 1605, at Chatellerault, by a political assembly.
2.	Lord Du Crois.
1.	Jean de Jaucourt, Lord de Villarnoul.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Nominated by the 18th National Synod (called the third Synod of La Rochelle), in 1607, the king having declared his resolution to refuse his royal licence to a political assembly.
2.	Jean Bontemps, Lord de Mirande.
Reign of Louis XIII.
1.	Jacques de Jaucourt, Lord de Rouvray.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1611, at Saumur, by a political assembly.
2.	Etienne Chesneverd, Lord de la Miletiere.
1.	Lord de Bertreville.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1614, at Grenoble, by a political assembly.
2.	Lord do Maniald.
1.	Lord de Maniald.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	In office in 1620, having been elected by a political assembly at Loudun.
2.	Jean, Lord de Chalas.
1.	Lord de Maniald.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	In office in 1623; these Deputies-General are named in the diplomatic papers concerning La Rochelle, and were probably elected by the political assembly that met in that city in 1621.
2.	Esaie Du Mas, Lord de Montmartyn. [On the death of the former, in 1626, Lord Hardy, one of his Majesty’s Secretaries, was nominated by the king.]
1.	Henri de Clermont d’Amboise, Marquis de Gallerande, commonly called the Marquis de Clermont.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	The Synod of Castres, in 1626, yielded to the royal demand, that six names should be sent, from which the king might select two Deputies-General. The other names were — (III.) Claude, Baron de Gabrias et de Beaufort, (IV.) Louis de Champagne, Comte de Suze, (V.) and (VI.) were from the tiers-etat. This Synod, by the king’s command, ordered that only laymen should sit in political assemblies.
2.	Lord Bazin.
1.	Marquis de Clermont.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	These names, by the king’s desire, were deliberately proposed by the Second Synod of Charenton, in 1631, and accepted by his Majesty. The message was, “That it was his Majesty’s pleasure, that this assembly should agree with him in the choice of two persons acceptable to his Majesty, who might exercise the office of Deputies-General near his person, and attend the court at its progresses and removals.”
2.	Lieutenant-General, Lord Galland, eldest son of the Lord Commissioner.
1.	Marquis de Clermont.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1637 by the Synod of Alencon.
2.	Lord Marbaud.

Reign of Louis XII. deputies-general appointed by the king himself.
1644.	Marquis d’Arzilliers.		The office was vacant by the resignation of De Clermont.
1653.	Marquis de Ruvigny.		On the death of d’Arzilliers.
1679.	Henri De Ruvigny, eldest son of the above.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	The father had leave either to act alone, or to co-operate with his son, ad libium.

1. A similar office had been introduced at the Court of Navarre, by the same prince. At the National Synod held at Vitre in Brittany, in the Chateau of the Right Hon. Guy, Comte De Laval, 16 May 1583, “The Lord Du Plessis presented himself in the name of the king of Navarre to this Assembly, proposing from his Majesty that there might be sent unto him, being now on the other side of the Loire, certain Deputies, persons of quality and understanding who might be near to his Majesty, to acquaint him with the true state of our Churches; and that he might also reciprocally communicate unto the Churches all matters of importance tending to their welfare and preservation. This assembly is of opinion that all the Churches be exhorted effectually to comply with his Majesty’s demands, and in order thereunto, to name one or two deputies to be despatched unto him in the name of the Churches, and this to be done out of hand; and the Province of the Isle of France is to see it done without delay.”