Étienne de Vesc

Étienne de Vesc (c. 1445–1501) was a Provençal courtier whom Louis XI appointed in 1470 to govern the household of the Dauphin Charles at Amboise; the chivalric education he gave the boy shaped the future Charles VIII. He undertook embassies as far as Spain and sat on the regency council in 1483.

A keen advocate of invading Italy, he prepared the 1494 campaign and entered Naples with Charles in February 1495, receiving the duchy of Nola and command of Gaeta. He organized the French evacuation from Naples in 1496, and kept at court by Louis XII, he died in 1501.