Friday, August 5, 2016

Charles de Solier, Comte Sieur de Morelle

Hans Holbein the Younger
Charles de Solier, comte de Morette
(1480 – 1 February 1552)

The son of Aubertin de Solier, comte de Morette (1465–1545), was a French soldier and
diplomat. He acted as ambassador to England on a number of occasions from October 1526 to June 1535. Morette was in London in 1534 when Henry VIII was attempting to win French support for his repudiation of Catherine of Aragon, in an alliance against Charles V.


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