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Claude of Guise de Lorraine
(1496-1550)
Antoinette de Bourbon
(1493-1583)
Ercole II d' Este
(1508-1559)
Renée de France
(1510-1574)
François de Lorraine Guise
(1519-1563)
Anne d' Este
(1531-1607)
Louis II de Lorraine Guise
(1555-1588)

 

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Louis II de Lorraine Guise 1

  • Born: 6 Jul 1555, Dampierre, France
  • Died: 24 Dec 1588, Blois aged 33

  General Notes:

Brother of Henri de Lorraine, 3rd duc de Guise, whom he supported vigorously in the War of the Three Henrys (Henry III, Henry of Navarre, Henry of Guise).

Guise became cardinal in 1574 and archbishop of Reims in 1583 and had an active and bloody role in the wars pursued by the Holy League. He was assassinated at Blois on the day after his brother's assassination; both bodies were burned and the ashes thrown into the Loire.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a 2nd cardinal of Guise.


Sources


1 Encyclopædia Britannica Online, "Guise, Louis II de Lorraine, 2e cardinal de".

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