HENRY III COMTE de PROVENCE - [ESCALIN CAPITAINE PAULIN] - Lot 237

HENRY III COMTE de PROVENCE - [ESCALIN CAPITAINE PAULIN] Parchment dated 1587, ordering dame Peyrac de Vienne, dame de Castellane, heiress of baron de La Garde, dame d'honneur de la Reyne, to repossess the house located in Marseille, which she had sold to Trescher de Toscane, cousin of the Grand Prieur, as the house had not been paid for. Document signed by Henry III Count of Provence. Document size 43x37 cm, consolidated with later vellum on spine for safekeeping, remnant of old seal. Antoine Escalin (1498-1578), better known as Captain Paulin, Baron de La Garde, was probably a bastard from Grignan. French privateer acting on behalf of François I, then Henri II. Sent on embassies by François I to Venice, and to Constantinople to Soliman the Magnificent, he was promoted to general of the naval army in 1542, and general of the galleys in 1544. He became Baron of La Garde on July 23, 1543, following a donation by Louis Adhémar, the last Baron of Grignan. In 1574, he was granted the seigneury of Brégançon, which he converted into a marquisate. Antoine Escalin never married. He nevertheless left two children, Madeleine and Jean-Baptiste, who perpetuated the Escalin line and received, by way of justice, the barony (received from Louis de Grignan).