Jacques Dalbon, Seigneur de Saint Andre

Jacques d'Albon, Seigneur de Saint-André was a French governor, Marshal, and favourite of Henry II. He began his career as a confident of the dauphin during the reign of François I. Saint André and the prince were raised together under the governorship of his father at court. In 1547, at the advent of Henry's reign, he was appointed as his father's deputy, serving as lieutenant general for the Lyonnais. Concurrently he entered the king's conseil privé and was made a Marshal and Grand Chamberlain.