He was the grandson of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and he succeeded his first cousin, François III d'Orléans as duc de Longueville. A close...

The First French War of Religion (2 April 1562 – 19 March 1563) was the opening civil war of the French Wars of Religion. The war began when in response...

d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and secondly king James V of Scotland and had issue, including Mary, Queen of Scots Francis, Duke of Guise (1519–1563)...

siege, on 24 July, the combined forces of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, André de Brancas, Amiral de Villars, and François d'Orléans-Longueville...

Spaniards after ten days of siege, after which only the citadel remained in French hands. The French general François d'Orléans-Longueville, Duke of Fronsac...

children, four of whom reached adulthood. [citation needed] In February 1563 Francis, Duke of Guise, was assassinated. While the murderer was seized and...

Thomas Stroupe. Mary of Guise's son by her first marriage, François III d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, received a gift of a gold chain from James V's daughter...

the site of the 1684 marriage between Victor Amadeus II and Anne Marie d'Orléans, niece of Louis XIV. Victor Amadeus II, having abdicated, lived here with...

2011). 1565, Malte dans la tourmente: Le Grand Siège de l'île par les Turcs [Malta in Torment: The Great Siege of the Island by the Turks] (in French). Editions...

the Sforza lordship. Three days later, a French army commanded by Louis d'Orléans arrived in the city, consisting of French soldiers, 3,000 Swiss mercenaries...

Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (b. 1547) June 11 – Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, French princess (b. 1549) June 16 – Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron...

French soldier, who commanded the French capital's defenses during the siege of Paris in the course of the Franco-Prussian War. He originally intended...

Admiral Coligny who the Guise accused of assassinating the duke of Guise in 1563. This culminated in a showdown in his governorship when Charles, Cardinal...

Antoine de Chabannes: 1472–147. Guillaume de Poitiers: 1478–14.. Louis d'Orléans: 1483–1485 Antoine de Chabannes: 1485–1488 Gilbert de Montpensier: 14...

eventually captured by Turgut Reis. In 1563, capitalizing on the political climate, the Regency of Algiers launched the sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir in a...

Bourbon (b. 30 March 1561, d. 19 October 1563) died young. Madeleine de Bourbon (b. 30 March 1562, d. 7 October 1563) died young. Catherine de Bourbon b....

time there was also an attempt to kidnap Catherine's third son the duc d'Orléans. By the beginning of 1562 Catherine, and her chancellor Michel de L'Hôpital...

to occupy the newly-captured territory. In 1428, the English army laid siege to Orléans, one of the most heavily defended cities in Europe, with more...

Guise, and Antoinette of Bourbon, in 1534 Mary was married to Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, the Grand Chamberlain of France. The marriage was...

culmination of the siege of English held Le Havre, which had been ceded to them by the French Protestants during the civil war of 1562–1563. In an effort to...

institutional reforms prescribed by the Council of Trent between 1545 and 1563. At about this time, Richelieu became a friend of François Leclerc du Tremblay...

from the Aeneas. The family of Mary of Guise's first husband, Louis II d'Orléans, Duc de Longueville, had Troy tapestries at their Château de Châteaudun...

against the Ottoman Empire. In 1716, he fought at the victory during the siege of Corfu under Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg. He left the navy in...

Italian War of 1494–1495. In July 1496, Montpensier was captured at the Siege of Atella with the remaining French forces, he and his men were held in...

Beylerbey of Algiers in 1562, and led the unsuccessful Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir in 1563. In 1567, he was recalled to Istanbul and named, Kapudan...

van Baer, Dutch army commander (d. 1713) July 28 – Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (d. 1721) August – Charles Louis Simonneau, French engraver...

Virnebourg ? 1443   Thibaut de Neufchâtel 1396 1461   1440 Charles, Duc d'Orléans 1391 1465   Jean VI, Duc de Bretagne 1389 1442   Jean II, Duc d'Alençon...

" Immediately following the death of Louis XIV, his nephew, Philippe d'Orléans, manoeuvered the Parlement into breaking the King's will and naming him...

participated in the attack of Prague in 1742, and also assisted in various sieges and battles of the era. In 1754, he was created a Colonel General of the...

Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac (1505 (O.S.)/06 – 1563), was a French courtier and soldier, named beau Brissac at court and remembered as the Maréchal...