CHABOT, PHILIPPE DE, SEIGNEUR DE BRION, COUNT OF CHARNY AND BUZANcAIS admiral of France. The Chabot family was one of the oldest and most powerful in Poitou. Philippe was a cadet of the Jarnac branch. He was a companion of Francis I. as a child, and on that king's accession was loaded with honours and estates. After the battle of Pavia he was made admiral of France and governor of Burgundy (1526), and shared with Anne de Montmorency the direction of affairs. He was at the height of his power in 1535, and commanded the army for the invasion of the states of the duke of Savoy; but in the campaigns of 1S36 and 1537 he was eclipsed by Montmorency, and from that moment his influence began to wane. He was ac cused by his enemies of peculation, and condemned on Feb. 1o, 1541, to a fine of 1,500,00o livres, to banishment, and to the con fiscation of his estates. Through the good offices of Madam d'Etampes, however, he obtained the king's pardon (March 1S41) and was reinstated, while Montmorency in his turn was disgraced. He died soon afterwards on June i, See the ms. correspondence of Chabot in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and contemporary memoirs.