| Claude II de l’Aubespine | |
| Birth Date: | 1510 |
| Death Date: | 11 November 1567 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Diplomat, Secretary of State |
| Predecessor: | Unknown |
| Successor: | Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy |
| Office1: | Secretary of State for the Navy |
| Term Start1: | 1 April 1547 |
| Term End1: | 1567 |
| Office2: | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start2: | 1 April 1547 |
| Term End2: | 1567 |
Claude II de l’Aubespine, seigneur de Hauterive et de la Forêt-Thaumieres, baron of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. (1510 – 11 November 1567) was a French diplomat, and Secretary of State.
From 1537 until 1567 he was one of the four Secretaries of State (ministers managing the government). He was one of the plenipotentiary of France to the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian War of 1551–1559.[1]
He served as secretary of state to kings Francis I, Henry II, Francis II and Charles IX.
He was associated with the Assembly of Notables at Fontainebleau, where he produced an edict of tolerance for reforms (1560) and the "reddition de Bourges" (1562).
Claude de l'Aubespine married Jeanne Bochetel, a daughter of the diplomat Guillaume Bochetel. Her brother Jacques Bochetel de la Forest, was a diplomat in London in the 1560s.[2] Their children included: