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...

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...

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...

Poltrots accusations for some further days. On 12 March he demanded a chance to cross examine Poltrot, to disprove these accusations. However Poltrot...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

came into force only after the hastily scheduled execution of Jean de Poltrot, alleged assassin of Guise. Seeking to cause conflict over such disputes...

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...

Guise had been assassinated by the Protestant assassin Poltrot de Méré. Under torture Poltrot would implicate Coligny in the assassination, though his...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...