ESTRADES

estrades, godefroi, comte d' (1607-1686), french diplomatist and marshal, was born at agen. he was the son of francois d'estrades (d. 1653), a partisan of henry iv., and brother of jean d'estrades, bishop of condom. he became a page to louis xiii., and at the age of nineteen was sent on a mission to maurice of holland. in 1646 he was named ambassador extraordinary to holland, and took part in the conferences at munster. sent in 1661 to england, he obtained in 1662 the restitution of dunkirk. in 1667 he negotiated the treaty of breda with the king of denmark, and in 1678 the treaty of nijmwegen, which ended the war with holland. independently of these diplomatic missions, he took part in the principal campaigns of louis xiv., in italy (1648), in catalonia (1655), in holland (1672); and was created marshal of france in 1675. he left _lettres, memoires et negociations en qualite d'ambassadeur en hollande depuis 1663 jusqu' en 1668_, of which the first edition in 1700 was followed by a nine-volume edition (london (the hague), 1743). of the sons of godefroi d'estrades, jean francois d'estrades was ambassador to venice and piedmont; louis, marquis d'estrades (d. 1711), succeeded his father as governor of dunkirk, and was the father of godefroi louis, comte d'estrades, lieutenant-general, who was killed at the siege of belgrade, 1717. see felix salomon, _frankreichs beziehungen zu dem scottischen aufstand_ (1637-1640), containing an excursus on the falsification of the letters of the comte d'estrades; philippe lauzun, _le marechal d'estrades_ (agen, 1896). estreat (o. fr. _estrait_, lat. _extracta_), originally, a true copy or duplicate of some original writing or record; now used only with reference to the enforcement of a forfeited recognizance. at one time it was the practice to extract and certify into the exchequer copies of entries in court roils which contained provisions or orders in favour of the treasury, hence the estreating of a recognizance was the taking out from among the other records of the court in which it was filed and sending it to the exchequer to be enforced, or sending it to the sheriff to be levied by him, and then returned by the clerk of the peace to the lords of the treasury. (see recognizance.)