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18 de may. de 2024 · On February 5, 1563, the Duke of Guise laid siege to Orléans. Thirteen days later, a Huguenot nobleman named Poltrot de Méré, who had infiltrated the duke’s entourage as a spy, shot him in the back. Initially, they believed the duke would survive, but he died on February 24 of complications of three bullets in his body.
Hace 1 día · Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He was later given multiple positions in ...
20 de may. de 2024 · She had Condé freed from prison and granted Antoine the important post of Lieutenant General of France. For the Guises, she confirmed the Duke of Guise’s position as a general of the French army. The year before Charles IX’s ascension, Catherine had also married her daughter Claude to the Guises’ cousin, Duke Charles III of Lorraine.
11 de may. de 2024 · In that same year came the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, after which Charles increasingly took advice from Admiral Gaspar de Coligny, a Huguenot leader. An effort at peace involved the marriage of the king's sister Margaret to Henry of Navarre. A week after the wedding, in August 1572, the Duke of Guise killed Coligny.
Hace 6 días · Mary of Burgundy (French: Marie de Bourgogne; Dutch: Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 until her death in 1482.
22 de may. de 2024 · Classified as either a tragedy or "contemporary history," it is widely considered Chapman's greatest play, and is the earliest in a series of plays that he wrote about the French political scene in his era, including the sequel The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, the two-part 'The Conpsiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron', and 'The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France'.
Hace 5 días · Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold, [a] was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal. Appointed as the Count of Charolais upon his birth, Charles vied for power and ...
