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6 days ago · The Marshal who came here, left to go to the army in order to confirm this matter, doubting whether the Duke of Guise was going to return into Lombardy, and is expected back to-night. 30,000 crowns have been borrowed from the merchants of Rome, on promise of repayment out of the earliest money accruing from the first impost; but security having been required from the Chamberlain on account of ...
6 days ago · R. O. 2075. INSTRUCTIONS to the BISHOP OF CARLISLE. 1. To take with him the King's letters of credence to lord Dacre, and tell him that the King perceives by the open letters under the Privy Seal of Scotland delivered by the three Estates to Clarencieux, and by letters from the Queen, Albany and Clarencieux, that they are determined to keep Albany in Scotland, in spite of the reasons urged in ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Henry I, Duke of Guise barely had the time to visit Meudon. It was at Meudon that the future Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) learned of the assassination of Henry III of France on 1 August 1589 by Jacques Clément. He went the very same day to see the wounded king in nearby Saint-Cloud. The king reassured him about his health. Henry went back to ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Henry IV was the king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and the first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With the aid of such ministers as the Duke de.
6 days ago · On 31 December 1584 Philip signed the Treaty of Joinville, with Henry I, Duke of Guise signing on behalf of the Catholic League; consequently Philip supplied a considerable annual grant to the League over the following decade to maintain the civil war in France, with the hope of destroying the French Calvinists.
Though Henry made a truce with Charles in 1556, war was soon resumed when a French expedition was sent into Italy under François, Duke de Guise (1557). The Spanish in the Netherlands, however, besieged the town of Saint-Quentin in Picardy, and Montmorency was defeated in an attempt to relieve it.
