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  House of Guise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Guise, led by François, defeated the Huguenots at the battle of Dreux, but he was assassinated shortly afterward, in 1563.
His nephew, the young Duke of Guise, was proposed by the Catholic League as a candidate for the throne, possibly through a marriage to Philip II of Spain's daughter Isabella, the granddaughter of Henry II of France.
Although Mayenne and other members of the House of Guise had murdered, tortured and wreaked havoc on the lives of many French citizens, for the sake of the country King Henri IV bought peace with him and in January of 1596 a treaty was signed that put an end to the League.
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 GUISE - LoveToKnow Article on GUISE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
GUISE, HOUSE OF, a cadet branch of the house of Lorraine (q.v).
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.
The Guises, as cadets of the sovereign house of Lorraine and descendants of the house of Anjou, claimed precedence of the Bourbon princes.
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 Mary of Guise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie de Guise (in English, Mary of Guise) (November 22, 1515 – June,1560) was the Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The eldest daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, head of the French House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette of Bourbon, Marie was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine.
It was Marie de Guise who effectively ruled Scotland as Regent for Queen Mary, who was sent to France at age 5 to be raised with her husband-to-be, the son of the French king Henry II.
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 GUISE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Guise is a commune of the Aisne ''département'' in northern France.
Guise is the agricultural centre of the northern area of Aisne.
Guise was the birthplace of Camille_Desmoulins (1760-1794), a journalist and politician who played an important part in the French_Revolution.
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 Mary of Guise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marie de Guise (in English, Mary of Guise) (November 22, 1515 - June,1560) was the queen consort of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The eldest daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise[?], head of the French House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette of Bourbon, Marie was married at the age of 19 to Louis of Orleans, Duke of Longueville.
It was Marie of Guise who effectively ruled Scotland as Regent for Queen Mary, whom Marie sent to France when Mary was 5 years old, to be raised with her husband-to-be, the son of the French king.
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 HOUSE OF BOURBON FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The House of Bourbon as a noble family dates at least from the beginning of the 13th_century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by a Lord who was a vassal of the King of France.
The Bourbon-Vendôme branch became the ruling house of first the tiny remnant of the Kingdom of Navarre on the northern side of the Pyrenees (1555) and then of France (1589), with Henry III of Navarre becoming Henry IV of France.
The Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon was founded by Philip V. He was born in 1683 in Versailles, the second son of the dauphine, the son of Louis XIV.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: House of Guise
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.
Guise returned to court (20 Oct., 1557) and was invested with the title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom.
This stipulated that, at the death of Henry III, the Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen (1520-90), the third son of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, should be recognized as heir to the crown, "to the exclusion of all French princes of the blood at present heretics and relapsed".
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 Historical Timeline
The Guises, first rivals with the queen-mother and then in alliance with her, conducted all affairs of state and surpassed in influence their opponents, the Catholic constable Montmorency, and his nephews, the three Châtillon brothers: Gaspard the Admiral de Coligny, François d'Andelot, and Cardinal Châtillon, later leaders of the Huguenots.
In alliance with Philip II of Spain, the League purposes the annihilation of the reformed party and the elevation of the Guises to the throne.
Guise entered Paris, was received with acclamation (King of Paris); the resistance of the king was broken by a popular insurrection.
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 Station Information - House of Guise
Founded as a branch of the House of Lorraine by Claude de Lorraine, first Duke of Guise, 1496-1563, whom King François I made a Duke.
This prompted the Conspiracy of Amboise in which the Huguenots and the House of Bourbon plotted to usurp the power of the House of Guise.
After an apparent conciliation, in December of 1588 King Henri III had both Henri de Lorraine and his brother, Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise (1555-1588), murdered during a meeting in the Royal Chateau at Blois.
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 Guise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
Claude’s daughter, Mary of Guise, married King James V of Scotland and was the mother of Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart).
Claude’s son François de Lorraine, 2d duc de Guise, 1519–63, became conspicuous, at the accession (1547) of Henry II, as the rival for power of Anne, duc de Montmorency.
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 Huguenot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The wars gradually took on a dynastic character, developing into an extended feud between the Houses of Bourbon and Guise, which - in addition to holding rival religious views - both staked a claim to the French throne.
The crown, occupied by the House of Valois, generally supported the Catholic side but on occasion switched over to the Protestant cause when politically expedient.
Henry of Navarre and the House of Bourbon allied themselves to the Huguenots, adding wealth and holdings to the Protestant strength, which at its height grew to sixty fortified cities and posed a serious threat to the Catholic crown and Paris over the next three decades.
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 Wars, of Religion Part 2
The House of Guise had been strongly identified with the defense of the Catholic Church, Guise was the son and grandson of heroes, and was himself a military hero, nicknamed "Le Balafré" for the scar he acquired in battle.
In December of 1584 the Guises signed the Treaty of Joinville on behalf of the League with Phillip II of Spain.
Guise took a Leaguer army to deal with them, and Henri III sent the Duc de Joyeuse to cut Navarre off in the southwest.
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 The Daggers That Were Not Blessed
Young Guise, who had received his baptism of fire in the war against the Turks in Hungary in his seventeenth year, pursued his vendetta relentlessly—at Jarnac and Moncontour his sword was reddened, and the great Coligny had to yield to his bitterest enemy at Poitiers.
Henry of Guise beheld with hot anger in his heart the elevation in esteem and influence of the man he believed to be responsible for his father's assassination.
The house of Guise was again in the ascendant and it was to maintain this ascendancy for many a year of bloody strife in France.
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 CHARLES OF LORRAINE MAYENNE - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES OF LORRAINE MAYENNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
MAYENNE, CHARLES OF LORRAINE, DUKE OF (1554-1611), second son of Francis of Lorraine, second duke of Guise, was born on the 26th of March 1554.
Paris was devoted to the house of Guise and had been roused to fury by the news of the nurder.
He maintained the ancient forms of the constitution against the revolutionary policy of the Sixteen, who during his absence from Paris took the law into their own lands and in November 1591 executed one of the leaders of the more moderate party, Barnabe Brisson, president of the parlement.
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 Under the Guise of Security House Demolitions in Gaza (by Chris Smith) - Media Monitors Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
His family has owned the land for generations, but his house is now an island in an ever-widening sea of Israeli settlement, a casualty of what human rights groups say is a systematic campaign of home demolitions, crop destruction and land confiscation carried out by the Israeli army under the guise of security operations.
In a recent incident, the IDF bulldozed eight houses in the villages of Wadi al-Amayer and al-Odeirya, south of Hebron, in retaliation for the murder of an Israeli from the nearby settlement of Susiya, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
The house is one of the highest points in the village and, according to a Reuters report, the IDF seized it because it provided a vantage point for protecting the settlement.
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 French Wars of Religion
By 1559, she had appointed her two powerful uncles of the House of Guise, Francois, Duke of Guise and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, to high positions in the French government.
The treaty was greeted with consternation by the powerful Duke of Guise, a fanatical Catholic with designs on the throne of France who, as head of the House of Guise, formed the Catholic League (aka the Holy League).
The Duke of Mayenne, a brother of the Duke of Guise, was commander of the armed forces of the Catholic League.
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 Articles - French Wars of Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Although she was a sincere Roman Catholic, she was prepared to deal favourably with the Huguenot House of Bourbon in order to have a counterweight against the overmighty House of Guise.
At Orléans, Francis, Duke of Guise was assassinated, and Catherine's fears that the war might drag on led her to negotiate a truce and the Edict of Amboise (1563).
The Guises, who had formed the Catholic League, had the unwavering support of the Spanish superpower and were therefore in a very strong position throughout the 1580s.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Huguenots
The religious hatred was intensified by political rivalry between the house of Valois, then in possession of the French throne, and the house of Guise.
Strife among the Catholics themselves, which resulted in the assassinations of the duc de Guise in 1588 and Henry III in 1589, helped the Huguenot cause.
With the death of Henry III the house of Valois became extinct, and Henry of Navarre, the first of the Bourbon line, became king of France as Henry IV.
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 Press Information Note 63 (MERIP): "Under the Guise = of Security: House Demolitions in Gaza," by Chris Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In a recent incident, the = IDF=20 bulldozed eight houses in the villages of Wadi al-Amayer and = al-Odeirya,=20 south of Hebron, in retaliation for the murder of an Israeli from = the=20 nearby settlement of Susiya, according to the Palestinian Center = for Human=20 Rights.
In the = village of=20 Nabi Salih, northeast of Ramallah, the IDF occupied a Palestinian = house on=20 a hilltop directly across from Halmish settlement on July 8.
The house = is one of=20 the highest points in the village and, according to a Reuters = report, the=20 IDF seized it because it provided a vantage point for protecting = the=20 settlement.
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 House of Guise: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about House of Guise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
House of Guise: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about House of Guise
In 1588, King François II, married Mary Queen of Scots.
After an apparent conciliation, in December of 1588 King Henri III had both Henri de Lorraine and his brother, Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise (1555-1558), murdered during a meeting in the Royal Chateau at Blois.
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The Houses of Guise and Montmorenci had rendered services of such importance to the state, that it was difficult to determine which of the two merited the pre�minence.
Francis now saw and felt that the House of Guise was become, as the House of Bourbon had been before, a dangerous rival of the House of Valois.
The Duke of Guise was animated by the Cardinal Charles of Lorraine, his brother, who united the splendor of the Roman purple to a noble figure, profound erudition, and uncommon eloquence.
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 Guise, house of --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Supported by Spain and the papacy, their persecution of the Huguenots led to the unsuccessful Amboise Conspiracy (1560), an attempted assassination of the leaders of the Guise party and transfer of power to the house of Bourbon.
The reign of the House of Plantagenet ended in the final battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought between the Lancaster and York families.
The house originated when Robert of Clermont, the sixth son of French King Louis IX married Beatrix, the heiress to the Bourbon lands.
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 Question about Alsace-Lorraine - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marie’s father, the Duke of Guise, was one of the most powerful men in France, both in his own right and by virtue of his relation to the French royal house of Valois.
Thus, Mary Stuart was closely related to the royal houses of both France and England, as well as being the sole heir to the throne of Scotland.
The cardinal of Lorraine of the House of Guise was lured into the castle of Blois and stabbed to death via the sword (conspiracy):
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 Patronage
In addition to working for the glory of Mlle de Guise, he composed for the king's first cousin, Elisabeth d'Orléans (known as "Madame de Guise" because she was the widow of Mlle de Guise's beloved nephew, the last Duke of Guise, who died very young in 1671).
Mme de Guise was a sort of Janus: she spent half of each year at court and the other half in her duchy of Alençon.
Mme de Guise, of course — for she was one of the godmothers.
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 House of Guise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Immensely ambitious, in 1588 he instigated a revolt against III of France">King Henri III, taking control of the city of Paris, becoming the defacto king.
Although Mayenne and other members of the House of Guise had murdered, tortured and wreaked havoc on the lives of many French citizens, for the sake of the country IV of France">King Henri IV bought peace with him and in January of 1596 a treaty was signed that put an end to the League.
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