# Matthieu Coignet

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'''Matthieu Coignet''' (c. 1514 – 1586) was a French lawyer, ambassador, landowner, and author. Thanks to an early English translation, some English-language sources give his name as '''Martyn Cognet'''.

==Life==
By 1549 Coignet was an advocate in the ''[Parlement](/source/Parlement)'' of Paris, a high [appellate court](/source/appellate_court). He was also [Master of Requests](/source/Master_of_Requests_(France)) to the French Queen, [Catherine de' Medici](/source/Catherine_de'_Medici), and in 1559 was appointed as procurator general of the ''Parlement'' of Savoy. On 22 February 1580 he was noted as a member of the ''[Conseil du Roi](/source/Conseil_du_Roi)'', a sometime ambassador to [Schwyz](/source/Canton_of_Schwyz) and the [Grisons](/source/Grisons), Master of Requests, and lord (''seigneur'') of [La Tuillerie-les-Dampmartin](/source/Dammartin-en-Go%C3%ABle) and of part of Bregi-en-Mulcian.<ref name=gdh>[Louis Moréri](/source/Louis_Mor%C3%A9ri), ''Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou le melange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane'' (Vol. 6 of 19th edition, Paris, 1744), [https://books.google.com/books?id=oC_L0EmaEKkC&pg=PA774 p. 774]</ref>

He died in 1586, aged 72.<ref name=gdh/>

==Publications==
[La Croix du Maine](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Grud%C3%A9) notes in his ''Les Bibliotheques françoises'' that by 1583 Coignet had published two books, ''Instruction aux Princes de garder la foi promise'' and ''La Philosophie Chretienne''.<ref name=gdh/> His work was translated into English by [Edward Hoby](/source/Edward_Hoby) and published in 1586 under the title ''Politique discourses on trueth and lying'', with an introduction by [Thomas Digges](/source/Thomas_Digges). Hoby gives the original author's name as "Sir Martyn Cognet".<ref>Lily B. Campbell, ''Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy'', p. 90</ref>

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