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5 days ago · Henry, Duke of Anjou, was passing through Nomeny while en route to Krakow. ... His name was the Duke of Guise, and he was going to quash the hopes of the Protestants in France forever. But what ...
2 days ago · Charles d Albert 1st Duke of Luynes French pronunciation ʃaʁl dalbɛʁ 5 August 1578 15 December 1621 was a French courtie.
1 day ago · There are several valuable portraits at the castle, among which are Archbishop Warham and Erasmus, by Holbein; John, Duke of Norfolk, who fell at the battle of Bosworth; Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Lord High Treasurer in the reign of Henry VIII. with his treasurer's rod and marshal's staff; Anne Dacre, Countess of Arundel, who brought Greystock to the Howards; Elizabeth, daughter of the last Duke ...
Jul 2, 2024 · September 1540, 1–10. Sept. 1. Aliens. Harl. MS., 442 f. 159. B. M. Writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London to make proclamation suspending execution of the Act against Strangers of 32 Henry VIII. [cap. 16], as regards servants of the King, Queen Katharine, Prince Edward, or other the King's children, or Lady Anne of Cleves, during such ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Henry's reign also saw the rise of the Guise brothers, Charles, who became a cardinal, and Henry's boyhood friend Francis, who became Duke of Guise.[39] Their sister Mary of Guise had married James V of Scotland in 1538 and was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Jun 13, 2024 · Henry III's legitimate heir was his distant cousin, King Henry III of Navarre, a Protestant. The Catholic League, led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, sought to exclude Protestants from the succession and championed the Catholic Charles, Cardinal of Bourbon, as Henry III's heir. In 1589, Jacques Clément, a Catholic fanatic, murdered Henry III.
4 days ago · Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144. His reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda ...
