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    Anne of Cleves (German: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July 1557) was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Little...
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    University Press. ISBN 0-521-57885-X. La Fayette, Madame de (1950). Magne, Emile (ed.). La Princesse de Clèves (in French). Librairie E. Droz. ISBN 978-1-77545-492-2...
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    La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she...
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    Marie of Cleves or of Nevers (Marie de Clèves, Marie de Nevers; 1553–1574), by marriage the Princess of Condé, was the wife of Henry, Prince of Condé,...
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    Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. Vol. 2. p. 741. Fraser, Antonia (1993). "Anne of Cleves". The Wives of Henry VIII. Vintage...
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    Henriette de La Marck (31 October 1542 – 24 June 1601), also known as Henriette of Cleves, was a French noblewoman and courtier. She was the 4th Duchess...
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    Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of...
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    Duchy of Cleves (German: Herzogtum Kleve; Dutch: Hertogdom Kleef) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which emerged from the medieval Hettergau [de]. It...
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    Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. Vol. 2. p. 741. Fraser, Antonia (1993). "Anne of Cleves". The Wives of Henry VIII. Vintage...
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    Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (c. 1493 – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the...
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    Kleve (redirect from Clèves)
    Kleve (German: [ˈkleːvə] ; traditional English: Cleves /kliːvz/ KLEEVZ; Dutch: Kleef; French: Clèves; Spanish: Cléveris; Latin: Clivia; Low Rhenish: Kleff)...
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  • Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon La Princesse de Clèves, character of the French novel published anonymously in 1678 by Madame de La Fayette This disambiguation...
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    siblings were two sisters, Anne (later Queen of England) and Amalia, and a brother, William, who became Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. In September 1526, Sibylle...
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    of Cleves in 1417. They were the grandparents of King Louis XII of France and the great-grandparents of John III, Duke of Cleves, father of Anne of Cleves...
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  • "Children of the Princess of Cleves". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-03-15. "Nous, princesses de Clèves : la princesse de Clèves, héroïne des cités". Le Monde...
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    with parts of the Renaissance palace still standing. William's sister Anne of Cleves was, for six months, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England....
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    Catherine Howard (category Household of Anne of Cleves)
    court. He secured her a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where Howard caught the King's interest. She married him on 28 July...
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    Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland (category Household of Anne of Cleves)
    lady-in-waiting to five wives of King Henry VIII of England: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. The daughter of...
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    filmmaking to star in Manoel de Oliveira's The Letter (1999), based on Madame de La Fayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves. After appearances in Mike Figgis's...
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    maternal grandparents were Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale, and Catherine de Foix, an Infanta of the Kingdom of Navarre. Anne was born in Buda (now Budapest)...
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    Courtesan, by Diane Haeger La Princesse de Clèves, by Madame de La Fayette The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici, by Jeanne Kalogridis Queen's...
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    Duchess Marie Eleonore of Cleves (16 June 1550 – 1 June 1608) was the Duchess of Prussia by marriage to Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia. She was the...
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    include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In...
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    on 6 May 1580, Charles was the son of Louis de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers, and Princess Henriette de Clèves. In 1600, as duke of Rethel, he founded, in...
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    Catherine Carey (category Household of Anne of Cleves)
    been dismissed. Catherine went on to become Maid of Honour to both Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard, the fourth and fifth wives of Henry VIII. On 26...
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    that year, after arranging the king's marriage to the German princess Anne of Cleves. The marriage was a disaster for Cromwell, ending in an annulment six...
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    House of Bourbon. Her sister-in-law was Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693) the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of...
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    Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. Vol. 2. p. 741. Fraser, Antonia (1993). "Anne of Cleves". The Wives of Henry VIII. Vintage...
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    Jülich-Cleves-Berg (German: Johann Wilhelm, Herzog zu Kleve, Jülich und Berg) (28 May 1562 – 25 March 1609) was the last Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. His...
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    Catherine de Clèves was married to the sovereign prince of Porcien, Antoine III de Croÿ a leading Protestant militant. His brother Jacques de Clèves married...
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