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    The House of Amboise was one of the oldest families of the French nobility whose followed filiation dated back to the early twelfth century. It took its...
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    town, it was once home of the French royal court. Amboise lies on the banks of the river Loire, 27 kilometres (17 mi) east of Tours. It is also about...
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    The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in...
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  • Charlotte d'Amboise (category House of Amboise)
    Applegate in the Boston leg of the pre-Broadway tour of the revival of Sweet Charity, as well as the first few weeks of previews on Broadway, following...
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    Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four...
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    Christopher d'Amboise (category House of Amboise)
    Choreography Lab". Triple Arts - Home. Retrieved April 30, 2019. Christopher-d-Amboise (November 6, 2017). "Christopher d'Amboise - Choreographer". www.theatreanddance...
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  • Carolyn George (category House of Amboise)
    Dallas, Texas, George was descended from some of the first settlers in Waco, Texas. She studied at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and at the San Francisco...
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    Jacques d'Amboise (dancer) (category House of Amboise)
    American father, Andrew Ahearn, and a mother of French Canadian descent, Georgette D'Amboise. He was one of four children. His father worked as a personal...
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    Clos Lucé (category Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire)
    large château located in the center of Amboise, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is located in the natural...
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  • member of the House of Thouars to hold this ducal crown. 1173-1226: Aimery VII. Son of Geoffroy IV. He was married to Agnes de Laval, daughter of Baron...
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    Matilda of Amboise († 1256), Countess of Chartres Married to Richard II, Count of Beaumont, then to Jean II de Nesle Theobald V, Count of Blois married...
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    The Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, was a failed attempt by a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young King Francis...
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    Château de Fougères (category Monuments historiques of Ille-et-Vilaine)
    was built by the House of Amboise in the eleventh century. It was destroyed in 1166 after it was besieged and taken by King Henry II of England. It was...
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    Louis de Clermont, seigneur de Bussy (category House of Amboise)
    the first son of Jacques de Clermont and Catherine de Beauvau. His father's uncle was the Cardinal of Amboise, principal minister of Louis XII. He left...
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  • Tracy House of Turnour House of Wellesley House of Albret House of Amboise House of Anjou House of Armagnac House of Artois House of Aumont House of Avesnes...
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    Charles II d'Amboise (category House of Amboise)
    into the House of Amboise, Charles was the nephew of Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, prime minister of King Louis XII of France, and the son of Charles I...
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    Pierre d'Amboise (category House of Amboise)
    a French nobleman of the House of Amboise. He was a son of Hugh VIII of Amboise, who was killed at the battle of Agincourt, and of Jeanne de Guénand....
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  • Jacques de Clermont-d'Amboise (category House of Amboise)
    the lands of Bussy and Saxe-Fontaine on condition that the family use the name and arms of the house of Amboise; thus, the name Clermont-Amboise was adopted...
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    death of the king, he was present at the council meeting and was also at the coronation. Later he supported the repression of the Amboise conspiracy of 1560...
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    the Clos Lucé house, in Amboise, on May 2, 1519. As a source of inspiration for this painting, Ingres took up the story of the death of the painter present...
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  • Adelais of Amboise (sometimes called Aelinde) (fl. 865), came from an influential Frankish family in the Loire Valley. Through her mother, whose name is...
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    a member of the House of Amboise; the Count of Montsoreau; and Jeanne de Craon. In the first story, "La belle Impéria" [fr], the Bishop of Chur, secretary...
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  • Michel Bucy (category Archbishops of Bourges)
    subject of debate: while some speculate that his mother was a count laundress, others believe that his mother was from the House of Amboises given that...
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  • Louis d'Amboise (category Year of birth unknown)
    and cardinal. A member of the House of Amboise, Louis d'Amboise was born in the Kingdom of France, ca. 1479. He was a cousin of Cardinals François Guillaume...
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    French Wars of Religion. Louis of Bourbon, Prince of Condé, brother of the Lieutenant-General and the suspected architect of the Amboise conspiracy, had...
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    the novel, the death of her brother Charles II; Catherine lamented that the deaths had taken the glory away from the house of Amboise, especially considering...
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    the governorship of Poitou and sent him off to escort Elisabeth of Valois to the Spanish border. In 1560, the organisers of the Amboise conspiracy tried...
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    role in the conspiracy of Amboise and its aftermath, pushed him to the centre of French politics. Arrested during the reign of Francis II then released...
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    The Edict of Amboise, also known as the Edict of Pacification, was signed at the Château of Amboise on 19 March 1563 by Catherine de' Medici, acting as...
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    member of the House of Amboise, Georges d'Amboise was born in the Kingdom of France in 1488, one of the sixteen children of Jean d'Amboise, signeur of Bussy...
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