HENRY III (1551–1589). L.S., Paris, October 30, 1576, to Jean de Luxembourg (1537–1576, Count of Brienne and Ligny), “Captain of fifty men-at-arms under my command and member of my private council”; countersigned by Secretary of State Simon Fizes; half-page folio, address on the reverse (water stain on one corner; ink seal bearing the crowned coat of arms of the Bauffremont family). “For your virtues and merits, you have been chosen and elected to the ranks of the knights of my order. In order to be admitted into this company, and to notify you of this election and present you, on my behalf, with the collar of the said order,” Luxembourg is to go to the S. de Montigny, who will present him with the collar…