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	LORRAINE - LoveToKnow Article on LORRAINE
		Attacked by the emperor, the duke of Lorraine was forced at the treaty of Amance (1218) to acknowledge himself the vassal of the count of Champagne, and to support the count in his struggles against his ancient ally the count of Bar.
		Lorraine in Medieval Times,The original kingdom of Lorraine was the northern part of the territories allotted by the treaty of Verdun (August 843) to the emperor Lothair I., and in 85l formed the inheritance of his second son, King Lothair.
		Thi~ kingdom of Lorraine was situated between the -realms of th East and the West Franks, and originally extended along thi North Sea between the mouths of the Rhine and the Ems including the whole or part of Frisia and the cities on the righi bank of the Rhine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LORRAINE.htm (4736 words)

	Francis II, Duke of Lorraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis II (February 27, 1572– October 14, 1632), was Duke of Lorraine briefly in 1624, quickly abdicating in favor of his son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_II,_Duke_of_Lorraine (92 words)

	GUISE - LoveToKnow Article on GUISE
		FRANCIS oF LORRAINE, 2nd duke of Guise (1519-1563), le grand Guise, was born at Bar on the 17th of February 1519.
		Aumale was made (s547) a peerage-duchy in his favor, and on the accession of Henry II.
		The partition between the brothers Anthony and Claude was ratified by a further agreement in 1530, reserving the lapsed honors of the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Sicily, Aragon, the duchy of Anjou and the countships of Provence and Maine to the duke of Lorraine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUISE.htm (3892 words)

	Habsburg
		Dukes of Modena of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
		Francis I, emperor of Austria 1804 - 1835: was Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
		Albert V (Albrecht V), duke of Austria 1404 - 1439, Holy Roman Emperor from 1438 - 1439 as Albert II.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ha/Habsburg.htm (1794 words)

	Guise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With the accession (1559) of the youthful Francis II, who was married to the duke’s niece, Mary Stuart, François de Guise and his brother the Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, c.1525–1574, were given control of the government.
		The Cardinal de Lorraine was largely responsible for the persecution of the Protestants during the reign of Francis II.
		The family was founded as a cadet branch of the ruling house of Lorraine by Claude de Lorraine, 1st duc de Guise, 1496–1550, who received the French fiefs of his father, René II, duke of Lorraine and Bar.
	bartleby.com /65/gu/Guise.html (951 words)

	Francia Media: Lorraine & Burgundy
		Isabel, the Heiress of Lorraine, marries a grandson of Duke Louis I of Anjou, son of King John II of France.
		Later, the Duke Frederick II (1027-1033) has a grandson, Dietrich I, who is enfeoffed with Bar.
		To the east, Upper Lorraine bordered on Alsace, part of the Duchy of Swabia, on the south, the Free County of Burgundy, and on the west, Champagne.
	www.friesian.com /lorraine.htm (11703 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: House of Guise
		On the marriage of Henry II with the Dauphin Francis, Henry II desired them to assume the titles of king and Queen of England and Ireland, alleging that Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, and Anne Boleyn, was ineligible, having been the child of an illegitimate marriage, also a heretic.
		Thus the man who, as the Archbishop of Reims, crowned successively Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX had a personal policy which was often at variance with that of the court.
		The dukes of Guise, however, as descendants of the House of Anjou, had certain pretensions to the Kingdom of Naples, and it was doubtless with the secret intention of defending these claims that François de Lorraine furthered an alliance between Henry II and Pope Paul IV which was menaced by Philip II.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07074a.htm (6421 words)

	Charles III, Duke of Lorraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles III (April 5, 1604 – September 18, 1675), was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated in favor of his younger brother, and again from 1661 until 1669, when the duchy was occupied by the French.
		He served in the Imperial armies in both the Thirty Years War and the Franco-Dutch War, and died in Austrian service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_III,_Duke_of_Lorraine (120 words)

	Francis I on Encyclopedia.com
		Founder of the house of Hapsburg-Lorraine, Francis was succeeded as Holy Roman emperor by his eldest son, Joseph II, and as grand duke of Tuscany by his younger son, Leopold (later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II).
		The election (Sept., 1745) of Francis to succeed Charles VII as emperor was recognized by Frederick in the Treaty of Dresden (Dec., 1745) with Maria Theresa.
		He succeeded his father in Lorraine, but agreed (1735) to cede his duchy to Stanislaus I of Poland to end the War of the Polish Succession (see Polish Succession, War of the); in exchange he received the right of succession to Tuscany.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Francis1H1R1E1.asp (609 words)

	Henry_I,_Duke_of_Lorraine
		Claudia of Lorraine (1612-1648), married Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine
		Nicoletta of Lorraine (1608-1657), married Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
		Henry I (November 8 1563 — July 31 1624), was Duke of Lorraine from 1608 until his death.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Henry_I,_Duke_of_Lorraine (90 words)

	THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
		Francis surrendered Lorraine (an Imperial fief) to France as the temporary sovereign Duchy of the French King's father-in-law, the former King of Poland, from whom it passed to France on his death in 1766.
		The Holy Roman Empire, ended by a decision of the last Emperor, Francis II, on 6 August 1806, had already long ceased to be a major political power, even though the prestige of the Imperial title conferred immense status and influence.
		The Archbishopric of Salzburg became a lay Electorate in 1803, and was given to the former Grand Duke of Tuscany (as compensation for the loss of his Italian states) until exchanged with Wurzburg in 1805.
	www.chivalricorders.org /nobility/holyroman (2298 words)

	Who's Who in 16th century France
		Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Phillip II of Spain, her daughter Claude married the Duke of Lorraine (it was at the celebration of this marriage that the fateful accident occurred), and her youngest daughter Marguerite married Henri de Navarre (Henri IV).
		The wife of King Henri II, daughter of the Florentine ducal family, and niece of Pope Leo X, three of Catherine's four sons came successively to the throne of France after the premature death of their father in a tournament accident (François II, Charles IX, Henri III).
		His sons François de Lorraine, 2nd duc de Guise, 1519-1563, and Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, 1525-1574, controlled French politics in the reign of François II, first husband of Mary Queen of Scots.
	www.lepg.org /people.htm (1892 words)

	1572
		December - The Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the Netherlands, lays siege to Haarlem.
		January 16 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
		Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (born 1510)
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/1/1572.htm (569 words)

	The Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece
		Leopold only ruled for two years when he was succeeded as Emperor and Sovereign by his eldest son Francis, who was elected Emperor as Francis II and presided over the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
		On his death in 1765, the Sovereignty of the Order passed to the first Prince of the new house of Habsburg-Lothringen (Habsburg-Lorraine), the Archduke Joseph, who had been elected King of the Romans in 1764 and became Emperor immediately upon his father's death.
		Francis had been proclaimed Emperor of Austria in 1804 and, by artful political maneuvering (in which he was aided by the considerable skills of his long-serving prime minister Clement, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg), managed to hold much of his disparate Empire together, eventually only losing the Belgian Netherlands following the Congress of Vienna of 1814-15.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/habsburg/austria/ausgdfl.htm (1460 words)

	Pretenders
		Margaret married a Duke of Lorraine-Bar, and their daughter also married within the Lotharingian House of Vaudemont...
		In 1688, James II was deposed for attempting to establish Roman Catholicism in Great Britain; he and his heirs maintained a rival court on the continent until the latter half of the 18th century.
		Based on the fact that Frederick II held Sicily and southern Italy, a claim that was assumed by his illegitimate son Manfred, the Kingdom of Naples has normally included Jerusalem as a adjunct title within its collection.
	www.hostkingdom.net /pretends.html (5938 words)

	Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections
		Adalbert III of Longwy [Duke of Upper Lorraine], b.
		[Count of Metz; Count of Chatenois; Duke of Upper Lorraine] b.
		Baldwin III of Hainaut (ii) Cte Gerhard II, liv 1134, m.
	members.aol.com /rfield/Lorraine.html (377 words)

	Courtly Lives - Felix Sypniewski - Polish Artist
		Henri paternal grandfather was Francis I, King of France (1494-1547)/ His paternal grandmother was Francis' second wife Eleanor (1498-1558), daughter of Philip I, King of Spain.
		Henryk Walezy/Valois (1551-1589)was the son of King Henri II (1519-1559)King of France, and Catherine Medici (1519-1589).
		Henri III was assassinated, in 1589, by a monk, during the Catholic-Huguenot Civil War in France.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/FelixSypniewski.html (597 words)

	The Guild of San Lorenzo
		1814-1846 Francis IV (son of Mary Beatrice, daughter of Ercole III, and Ferdinand, son of emperor Francis I) 1846-1859 Francis V (son; deposed, died 1875; union with the kingdom of Sardinia 1860)
		1847-1849 Charles II (grandson of Ferdinand; duke of Lucca 1824-47, abdicated, died 1883)
		1801-1803 Louis I (son of Ferdinand, duke of Parma; reconstitution of Tuscany as the kingdom of Etruria 1801-7)
	members.aol.com /paximus/Fondazione.html (4934 words)

	Hapsburg: Shifting Fortunes
		On the death of Charles Albert of Bavaria, Holy Roman emperor as Charles VII (1742–45), the imperial title was bestowed on Archduchess Maria Theresa's husband, Francis, grand duke of Tuscany and former duke of Lorraine, who became
		Leopold's son, Francis II, assumed (1804) the title Francis I, emperor of Austria, and abdicated as Holy Roman emperor in 1806.
		An enlightened despot, Joseph II instituted reforms that included abolition of serfdom, revision of the penal code, religious toleration, and reduction of the power of the church.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0858554.html (580 words)

	Langued'oil
		The district is well-known for its association with the Guise branch of the Ducal house of Lorraine - Dukes of Guise were, in the 16th century, among the most influential men in France and were the primary foes of the Huguenot movement in France.
		Its very extensive Chateau was a favorite residence of Charles VIII and Francis I, and was the place that Leonardo da Vinci died while in the employ of the latter monarch.
		After Guy II, the County was purchased by Louis, the first Valois Duke of Orléans, whose grandson became King Louis XII, whereby Orléans and Blois became Crown lands.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Languedoil.html (2903 words)

	Revelation 17:12-13 - Part II: The Black Nobility
		Wolf Szmuness, the ex-roommate of Pope John Paul II, during student-days, was the mastermind behind the November 1978, October 1979 and March 1980 to October 1981 experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials conducted by the Centers for Disease Control in New York, San Francisco and four other American Cities.
		Following World War II the elites were told that by or shortly after 2000, the total collapse of civilization as we know it, and the possible extinction of the human race could occur.
		The first study was made during WW II to determine the impact of returning soldiers on the economy.
	www.biblebelievers.org.au /bb980306.htm (7325 words)

	Untitled
		Claude I, who was the second son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, became Duke of Guise and bore Lorraine with a label.
		The eldest, Francis I, also Duke of Guise, bore Lorraine with a label, while the youngest became Master of Elboeuf, and bore Lorraine with a bordure.
		In conclusion, it is obvious that substituting a peripheral for a nonperipheral secondary charge was certainly a period way to change the same base coat to show that two individuals are brothers.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/loar/1997/06/lar.html (5429 words)

	Courtly Lives - The Holy Roman Empire
		Francis I (Frances Stephen) (1745-1765) the duke of Lorraine
		In 1806, Francis I gave up his title as Holy Roman Emperor and became Emperor of Austria.
		son of Francis I and Maria Theresa (see above)
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/HRE.html (293 words)

	Henri II, duke de Montmorency -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Henri II, duke de Montmorency -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of Henri de Montmorency by his second wife, Louise de Budos, Henri was appointed to succeed his father as governor of Languedoc in 1608 and became grand admiral in 1612.
		Duke de Montmorency from 1614, he campaigned against the Huguenots…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053560?tocId=9053560 (84 words)

	Francis II, Duke of Lorraine
		Francis II (February 27 1572— October 14 1632), was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death.
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/francis_ii__duke_of_lorraine (119 words)

	I187: Mary ( - )
		She then married Henry II, King of England.
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		_Hildegarde (Adelgarde) of BURGUNDY ____________ _William X Duke_of AQUITAINE _
	millennium.fortunecity.com /kermit/354/rmwwanc/g0000123.html (1337 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Fr
		Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
		Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Fr.htm (105 words)

	Promise of a great reign. (from Francis I) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		This ill-fated dream of recovering his great-grandmother Valentina Visconti's heritage—which had been lost, retaken, then lost again—fascinated Francis in his turn.
		Ambitious for glory and urged on by turbulent young nobles, he made sure of peace with his neighbours, entrusted the regency to his mother, …
		"Francis I." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2416?tocId=2416 (68 words)

	Chapter Gravelled <i>to</i> Grecian Coffee-house of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		OSMO DI, first Grand Duke of Tuscany.(1519, 1537-1574.)
		He forbade the use of gold and silver vessels in the palace, and appropriated the money which they fetched to the aged poor.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1172/22848/1.html (307 words)

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