Jean de Poltrot (c. 1537 – 1563), sieur de Méré or Mérey, was a French nobleman of Angoumois, who assassinated Francis, Duke of Guise in the aftermath...
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1563, François, Duke of Guise was assassinated by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot during the Siege of Orléans. His death represents a critical turning point...
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when he was wounded on 18 February 1563 by the Huguenot assassin, Jean de Poltrot de Méré, and died six days later, bled to death by his surgeons, at Château...
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Poltrots accusations for some further days. On 12 March he demanded a chance to cross examine Poltrot, to disprove these accusations. However Poltrot...
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but their triumph was short-lived. On 18 February 1563, a spy called Poltrot de Méré fired an arquebus into the back of the Duke of Guise, at the siege...
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the Siege of Orléans, Guise was shot and killed by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot de Méré. As he was killed outside of direct combat, the Guise family considered...
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David Walliams Edmund Carteret — Jonathan Rigby Jasper Jeake — Mark Gatiss Poltrot/Librarian/Major Billy Lovemore — Jez Fielder Sir Nicholas Valentine — David...
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that he had hired Poltrot merely as a spy to investigate the dukes camp, and that the murder plot was thus clearly his initiative. Poltrot would alter his...
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Orléans, Francis, Duke of Guise, was shot and killed by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot de Méré. As he was killed outside of direct combat, the Guise considered...
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ahead. He was ambushed and fatally wounded by the Protestant Jean de Poltrot. Poltrot had been in the service of the Protestant commander the sieur de Soubise...
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Leigh as St. Andre, Thomas Gillow as Vidam of Chartres, James Nokes as Poltrot, Elizabeth Barry as Princess of Cleve, Mary Slingsby as Marguerite, Elinor...
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assassinated on 24 February 1563 by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot during the Siege of Orléans. Poltrot was captured and tortured while in prison to find out...
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de' Medici after Francis II's death. Assassinated by Huguenot Jean de Poltrot in 1563. Michel de l'Hôpital (1507–1573) Chancellor of France (1560–1573)...
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came into force only after the hastily scheduled execution of Jean de Poltrot, alleged assassin of Guise. Seeking to cause conflict over such disputes...
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On the eve of entering Orléans, Duke François de Guise was killed by Poltrot de Méré. When questioned, the latter denounced Théodore de Bèze, Admiral de...
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Guise had been assassinated by the Protestant assassin Poltrot de Méré. Under torture Poltrot would implicate Coligny in the assassination, though his...
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Peyster, American Brevet Major General in the American Civil War Jean de Poltrot (1537–1563), shot the Duke of Guise in arguably history's earliest firearm...
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Protestant party with ardour. The assassin of Henry I, Duke of Guise, Jean de Poltrot, was one of his pages. François Bouchard fled to Geneva with his wife and...
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while conducting the siege of Orléans Guise was assassinated by Jean de Poltrot. In the absence of Lorraine, Aumale and Cardinal Guise hurried to the siege...
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Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging Orléans by Jean de Poltrot. March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by...
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assassinated at the climax of the first war of religion, the perpetrator Jean de Poltrot was quickly apprehended. Under torture he confessed that among the Protestants...
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Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging Orléans by Jean de Poltrot. March 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by...
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Dierck Mullem, vers 1580 in Het Boek, 1966 Christofle de Thou et Jean Poltrot, seigneur de Méré in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme...
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