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    20 hours ago · Meanwhile, she was summoned to Nancy under safe conduct by Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, who had heard about Joan during her stay at Vaucouleurs. The duke was ill and thought she might have supernatural powers that could cure him. She offered no cures, but reprimanded him for living with his mistress.

  3. 20 hours ago · Pages 616-625. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 13, Addenda.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.

  4. 4 days ago · The Duke of Lorraine, with the consent of the French and Spanish Kings, shortly goes into Almain; whether his going be touching the matter of Denmark or some other matter is not known as yet. Lord Seton, since his coming, being at the beginning somewhat countenanced, seems now in the end so evil satisfied that he desires to return into his own ...

  5. 5 days ago · John II was King of Portugal for a decade and a half during the latter half of the 15th Century. He encouraged an expansion in his country's naval explorations and engineered one very famous world-changing treaty negotiation. He was born on March 3, 1455, in the Castle of São Jorge. His father was the reigning monarch, Afonso V, and his mother ...

  6. 5 days ago · Joan of Arc’s nickname was “La Pucelle” or the Maid, in reference to an old French prophecy that held that a virgin from Lorraine would save the people of France after an immoral woman, later held to be Isabella of Bavaria, jeopardized the crown. Could Joan of Arc read and write?

  7. 3 days ago · John was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland (Norman: Jean sans Terre, lit. 'John without land') because he was not expected to inherit significant lands.

  8. 3 days ago · The duke was so impoverished by his adherence to the cause of England against France that he was compelled to mortgage his lands in the county of Richmond to John Lord Nevill, a burden from which Richard II helped to release him as soon as he came to the throne.

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