Robert Le Maçon

Reformed minister and diplomat
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IntroReformed minister and diplomat
wasMinister
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Religion:Protestantism
Birth1534
Death1611 (aged 77 years)
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Biography

Robert le Maçon, Sieur de la Fontaine, or Robert Masson, (1534/5–1611) was a French Reformed minister and diplomat. He founded an important church in Orléans which became central to the Huguenot movement during the first French War of Religion 1562.

Fontaine became minister of the French church in London. In 1586 Francis Walsingham wrote to him, asking him to establish a French church in Scotland.

His three daughters married members of the Harderet family, Huguenot merchants and goldsmiths in London.

Fontaine had business connections with a Scottish merchant George Bruce of Carnock, and in July 1588 undertook to repay a loan of £100 Stirling made to the English ambassador in Edinburgh, William Ashby.

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