Claude, Duke of Guise
Claude de Lorraine | |
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Duc de Guise | |
Born | Château de Condé-sur-Moselle | 20 October 1496
Died | 12 April 1550 Château de Joinville | (aged 53)
Noble family | Lorraine |
Spouse(s) | Antoinette de Bourbon
(m. 1513) |
Issue
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Father | René II, Duke of Lorraine |
Mother | Philippa of Guelders |
Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (20 October 1496 – 12 April 1550) was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528.
He was a highly effective general for the French crown. His children and grandchildren were to lead the Catholic party in the French Wars of Religion.
Biography[]
Claude was born at the Château de Condé-sur-Moselle, the second son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, and Philippa of Guelders.[1] He was educated at the French court of Francis I. On 9 June 1513, at the age of sixteen, Claude married Antoinette de Bourbon (1493–1583),[1] daughter of François, Count of Vendôme.
Military service[]
Claude distinguished himself at the Battle of Marignano (1515),[2] and was long in recovering from the twenty-two wounds he received in the battle. In 1521, he fought at Fuenterrabia, and Louise of Savoy ascribed the capture of the place to his efforts. In 1523, he became governor of Champagne and Burgundy, after defeating at Neufchâteau the imperial troops who had invaded this province. In 1525, Claude defeated a peasant army near Saverne (Zabern).[3] Following Francis I's return from captivity, Claude was made Duke of Guise in 1527.[4] The Guises, as cadets of the sovereign House of Lorraine and descendants of the Capetian House of Anjou, claimed precedence over the Bourbon princes of Condé and Conti.[citation needed]
Marriage and issue[]
Claude married Antoinette de Bourbon,[5] daughter of François, Count of Vendôme and Marie de Luxembourg, on 9 June 1513; they had 12 children:
- Mary of Guise (1515–1560); married King James V of Scotland and had issue, including Mary, Queen of Scots[1]
- Francis, Duke of Guise (1519–1563)[1]
- Louise of Guise (10 January 1520, Bar-le-Duc – 18 October 1542); married Charles I, Duke of Arschot on 20 February 1541.[6]
- Renée of Guise (2 September 1522 – 3 April 1602), Abbess of St. Pierre, Reims.
- Charles of Guise (1524–1574), Duke of Chevreuse, Archbishop of Reims, and Cardinal of Lorraine.[1]
- Claude, Duke of Aumale (1526–1573)[1]
- Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (1527–1578)[1]
- Philip of Guise (3 September 1529, Joinville – 24 September 1529, Joinville)
- Peter of Guise (b. 3 April 1530, Joinville); died young.
- Antoinette of Guise (31 August 1531, Joinville – 6 March 1561, Joinville), Abbess of Faremoutier
- Francis of Guise (18 April 1534, Joinville – 6 March 1563), Grand Prior of the Order of Malta.[1]
- René, Marquis of Elbeuf (1536–1566)[1]
Antoinette de Bourbon
Queen Mary of Guise
Duke Francis of Guise
Cardinal Charles of Lorraine
Queen Mary of Scots
Claude died at Château de Joinville, aged 53.
Ancestry[]
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See also[]
- Duke of Lorraine
- Dukes of Lorraine family tree
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Wellman 2013, p. 236.
- ^ Spangler 2009, p. 64.
- ^ Carroll 2009, p. 35.
- ^ Hillerbrand 1996, p. 452.
- ^ Bell 2004, p. 127.
- ^ Carroll 2009, p. 57.
References[]
- Bell, Susan G. (2004). The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies. University of California Press.
- Carroll, Stuart (2009). Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford University Press.
- Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim, ed. (1996). "House of Lorraine-Guise". The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 2. Oxford University Press.
- Spangler, Jonathan (2009). The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France. Ashgate Publishing Limited.
- Wellman, Kathleen (2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press.
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- People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Military leaders of the Italian Wars
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