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Catholicism. Signature. Francis II ( French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560. He ascended the throne of France at age 15 after the accidental death of his father, Henry II, in 1559.
Henry III of France. Henry III of France (September 19, 1551 – August 2, 1589) was a King of France and a member of the House of Valois. He was also a King of Poland. Birth. Henry was born in Fontainbleau, France, on September 19, 1551. His parents were Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici. He was Catherine de Medici's favourite son.
3 days ago · Margaret of Angoulême (born April 11, 1492, Angoulême, France—died Dec. 21, 1549, Odos-Bigorre) was the queen consort of Henry II of Navarre. As a patron of humanists and reformers and as an author in her own right, she was one of the most outstanding figures of the French Renaissance. Daughter of Charles de Valois-Orléans, comte d ...
Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France, reigned 1589–1610. Henry V of France (1820–1883), pretender, 19th century. Henry of France (born 1083 and died young), second son of Philip I of France. Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims (1121–1175), Bishop of Beauvais then Archbishop of Reims, son of Louis VI of France.
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1] One of its most notorious episodes was the ...
Saint Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (972–1024), crowned King of Germany in 1002, of Italy in 1004 and Emperor in 1014. Henry II of England (1133–89), reigned from 1154. Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1271–1324), reigned from 1285; king of Jerusalem in name only from 1291. Henry II of Castile (1334–79), reigned 1366–67 and from 1369.
In 1171, Henry was betrothed to Isabella of Hainault. When she married Philip II of France instead, his father, aunt and other members of his family were angered. It made Queen Adela's faction hostile to Isabella's family and so caused tension at the French court. Henry's father died in 1181, and his mother ruled, as regent, until 1187.
