Nicholas Briot

Abt 1579 - 1646  (67 years)

• Name	Nicholas Briot
  Birth	Abt 1579	Damblain, Vosges, Lorraine, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Title Suffix	Master of the Mint
  Occupation	1605	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  	Engraver-General of the Coins of France, to 1625
  Occupation	1633	London, England
  	Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint
  Occupation	1635	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Master of the Mint in Scotland. Introduced mechanised coin production in 1637.
  Occupation	1637	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Master of the Mint, held jointly with his son-in-law, John Falconer
  Death	Dec 1646	London, England   [1]
  Burial	25 Dec 1646	London, England
  	St Martin's in the Fields
  Person ID	I44930	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family	Esther Petau   d. Aft 1660
  Marriage	1611	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1]
  Children	1. Esther Briot,   b. 1614, Paris, Île-de-France, France  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1579 - Damblain, Vosges, Lorraine, France Occupation - Engraver-General of the Coins of France, to 1625 - 1605 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Marriage - 1611 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Occupation - Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint - 1633 - London, England Occupation - Master of the Mint in Scotland. Introduced mechanised coin production in 1637. - 1635 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Occupation - Master of the Mint, held jointly with his son-in-law, John Falconer - 1637 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Death - Dec 1646 - London, England Burial - 25 Dec 1646 - London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3626] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Name: Oxford University Press; Location: Oxford;), Briot, Nicholas, 2004.