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    Louis de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise et prince-évêque de Metz (21 October 1527, in Joinville, Champagne – 29 March 1578, in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic...
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    Louis II de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise (6 July 1555, Dampierre – 24 December 1588, Château de Blois) was a French prelate, Cardinal and politician during...
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    François de Lorraine, 2nd Duke of Guise, 1st Prince of Joinville, and 1st Duke of Aumale; 17 February 1519 – 24 February 1563), was a French general and...
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    Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (20 October 1496 – 12 April 1550) was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528. He...
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    Henri I de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Prince of Joinville, Count of Eu (31 December 1550 – 23 December 1588), sometimes called Le Balafré ('Scarface'), was...
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    Marie de Luxembourg. Among her 11 siblings were Francis, Duke of Guise; Claude, Duke of Aumale; Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine; and Louis I, Cardinal of Guise...
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    Henri II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise, (4 April 1614, in Paris – 2 June 1664) was a French aristocrat and archbishop, the second son of Charles, Duke...
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    Charles de Lorraine, 4th Duke of Guise and 3rd Prince of Joinville (20 August 1571 – 30 September 1640), was the son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine...
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    Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of...
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    of Guise (25 December 1494 – 22 January 1583), was a French noblewoman of the House of Bourbon. She was the wife of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise. Antoinette...
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    Jean de Lorraine (9 April 1498 – c. 18 May 1550) was the third son of the ruling Duke of Lorraine, and a French cardinal, who was (at one time or another)...
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    brother, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine studiously looked at the floor. On 18 April, while Condé was attending the King's levée, the Guise had his apartments...
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    Aumale, 1564-1591 Louis I of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, 1527-1578 Francis of Lorraine, Grand Prior, 1534-1563 René II of Lorraine, Marquis of Elbeuf...
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    of Lorraine (1489–1544) Nicholas (9 April 1493, Nancy); d. young Claude, Duke of Guise (1496–1550); first Duke of Guise Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine and...
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    opposed at court by the king's mistress Diane de Poitiers and her allies the duc de Guise and Cardinal de Lorraine. He led the crushing of the gabelle revolt...
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    of Guise for a list. See Duchess of Guise for a list of their wives. Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine Louis I, Cardinal of Guise Louis II, Cardinal of Guise...
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    Catherine-Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Montpensier (18 July 1551 – 5 May 1596), was a French princess from the house of Guise who played a leading political...
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    open about his preference for male lovers, most notably the Chevalier de Lorraine, and freely acted with effeminacy. He married twice, first to Henrietta...
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  • Cardinal of Guise can refer to these members of the French ducal family de Guise who became cardinals: Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (1527-1578), Bishop...
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    of fifteen. In what has been called a coup d'état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise—whose niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis...
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  • Cardinal of Guise (1527–1578) Louis II, Cardinal of Guise (1555–1588) Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (1575–1621) Louis Joseph de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (1650–1671)...
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    Marguerite of Lorraine (22 July 1615 – 13 April 1672), Duchess of Orléans, was the wife of Gaston, younger brother of Louis XIII of France. As Gaston...
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    wrath of Cardinal Richelieu in Lorraine, Gaston fell in love at first sight with Marguerite of Lorraine, the sister of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. But as...
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    On 23 December 1588, Henri I, Duke of Guise was assassinated by the Quarante Cinq serving King Henri III. The event was one of the most critical moments...
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    Charles II, Duke of Lorraine. René, then only ten, was to be brought up in Lorraine under the guardianship of Charles II and Louis, cardinal of Bar, both of...
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    with Cardinal de Fleury. Louis Henri died at his manor, the Château de Chantilly, in 1740. His titles were inherited by his 4-year-old son, Louis Joseph...
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    Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, who was two years her junior. They had fourteen children, including Charles, Duke of Guise and Louis III, Cardinal of Guise...
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    Humiliated Lorraine and Guise retreated to their residence, where they were taunted even by Catholic Parisians. In early January 1566 Lorraine travelled...
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    Press. Putko, Carole Ann (1996). The pursuit of power: Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine (1525-1574): A study in complexity, controversy, and compromise...
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    re-married on 4 February 1570, to Catherine de Lorraine, sister of Henry I, Duke of Guise and of Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne. His first marriage afforded...
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