Claude, Duke of Guise
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6 days ago · 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 ...
Jun 26, 2024 · They sought to induce his Majesty to persuade the King of France to pardon the Scottish rebels and Lutherans, to withdraw his army from Scotland, and to give respite to these miscreants, and also to restore Calais. Whereto his Majesty made no other answer than that he referred them to the Duke of Alva, from whom they would learn his mind.
Jun 24, 2024 · Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Prince of Epinoy, Marquis of Roubaix and Count of Fauquemberg (8 October 1618 – 21 December 1679), was a nobleman from the Spanish Netherlands, a soldier and diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain and Charles II of Spain.
Jun 25, 2024 · He also spoke to me about the Duke of Savoy, giving me to understand that he would never get his country back, and that he had not deserved to obtain it from the King. I asked him whether M. de Nemours would be his heir, supposing that the Duke of Savoy did not obtain possession.
Jun 15, 2024 · Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 15, 1540.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1896. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
6 days ago · It is the work of a man with an extraordinary destiny: Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of the last King of France, Louis-Philippe. Considered to be the greatest collector of his time, the Duke designed the art galleries of Chantilly, assembling the second largest collection of old masters’ paintings in France, after the Louvre Museum.
Jun 25, 2024 · The July Monarchy (French: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (French: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 February 1848, with the Revolution of 1848.
