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François Joseph de Lorraine (28 August 1670 – 16 March 1675), Duke of Guise, Duke of Alençon and Duke of Angoulême, was the only son of Louis Joseph de Lorraine, Duke of Guise and Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, suo jure duchess of Alençon.
House of Guise, Noble French Roman Catholic family that played a major role in French politics during the Reformation. Claude de Lorraine (1496–1550) was created the 1st duke de Guise in 1527 for his service to Francis I in the defense of France.
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Francis I of Lorraine, 2nd Duke of Guise, 1st Prince of Joinville, and 1st Duke of Aumale (French: François de Lorraine; 17 February 1519 – 24 February 1563), was a French general and statesman. A prominent leader during the Italian War of 1551–1559 and French Wars of Religion , he was assassinated during the siege of Orleans in ...
The last duke of Guise, François Joseph, died in 1674, and by 1688 the entire house of Guise-Lorraine had come to an end. ( See also Aristocracy; France; Henry IV; Protestant Reformation. * duchy. territory ruled by a duke or duchess. * medieval.
Count of Guise and Duke of Guise (/ ɡ w iː z / GWEEZ, French:) were titles in the French nobility. Originally a seigneurie, in 1417 Guise was erected into a county for René, a younger son of Louis II of Anjou.
The last three years of Guise’s life were occupied largely by military conflict, first with England during the Anglo-Scottish war of 1558 and latterly against a rebellious group of Scottish Protestants, supported by English military back-up, in what we now call the Scottish Reformation Rebellion. 1 Her death thus facilitated the development of p...
Duke of Guise and François’s son, he took part in the 2 nd and 3 rd wars of Religion, notably in the battle of Jarnac where Louis de Bourbon, first Prince of Condé, was killed. He was suspected of having ordered admiral de Coligny’s murder.
