Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle

Nicolas de Granvelle Perrenot (also Granvelle the Elder; Latin:. Nicolaus Perrenotus Granvellanus ) (* 1484 in Ornans, † August 28, 1550 in Augsburg ) was a Burgundian lawyer and statesman in the Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

Nicolas Perrenot came in Ornans, a small town not far from Besançon in the Franche-Comté, in simple civil relations to the world. His father is, as Friedrich Schiller noted in his History of the Revolt of the United Netherlands, have been a blacksmith. The noble title "Lord of Granvelle " acquired Nicolas Perrenot only later. He studied at the University of also belonging to the Free County city of Dole, where he was also his Doctor of Laws. He then began his legal career as a lawyer in Dole. In 1518 he became a member of the local city council - an activity that was associated with his elevation to the peerage. In 1519 entered the service of Charles V and was initially responsible for petitions and requests in the government authority of the Habsburg Netherlands. 1521, he took with Charles Grand Chancellor Mercurino Gattinara part on the Habsburg side in the negotiations between France and the Habsburgs, which took place under the mediation of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to Calais. In 1530 he was finally appointed Chancellor of the Emperor, and led in 1540 to chair the diets of Worms and Regensburg. He died on August 15, 1550 in Augsburg during the Reichstag held there.

His son Antoine de Granvelle Perrenot already acted on the diets of the forties as the right hand of his father in the service of Charles V and was later one of the most influential politician at the court of Philip II of Spain.