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The position was frequently given to the highest of the [[French nobility|nobility]] or to the king's close friends. [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] conferred it upon his former teacher [[Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy|Artus Gouffier]], then to his uncle [[René de Savoie]], the "grand bâtard de Savoie", then to his friend [[Anne de Montmorency|Anne, duc de Montmorency]].
In 1559, with the dismissal of Montmorency, the office fell into the hands of the [[Dukes of Guise]], who used the position to increase their influence at court to such a point that [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] forced [[Henry I, Duke of Guise]] to reduce his scope of authority. In 1594, the position passed into the control of the [[House of Bourbon]] and the [[Princes of Condé]], who maintained control until the [[French Revolution]] (except for the period 1654–1656, when it was held by [[Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano|Thomas of Savoy-Carignano]], who had replaced the Guises as foremost of the ''[[Foreign Prince|princes étrangers]]'').<ref>{{cite book|last= Spanheim|first= Ézéchiel|authorlink=Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim|editor= [[Emile Bourgeois]]|title= Relation de la Cour de France|url= https://archive.org/details/relationdelacou00spangoog|series= le Temps retrouvé|year = 1973|publisher=Mercure de France|location= [[Paris]]|language= French|page= 134}}</ref>
== Grand Masters of France ==
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