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Article: Guise Family
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GUISE FAMILY
GUISE FAMILY.
The Guise lineage was the product of the dynastic convolutions of the Houses of Lorraine and Anjou in the fifteenth century. Ren
é
II, duke of Lorraine (1451
–
1508), passed his lands in the kingdom of France to his second son, Claude I, count of Guise (1496
–
1550), who was naturalized French in 1506, but the Guise never forgot their dynastic claims to Scotland, Provence, and Naples. Claude made a good marriage in 1513 to Antoinette de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Fran
ç
ois de Bourbon-Vend
ô
me. Although he was not an intimate of King Francis I (1494
–
1547), he was rewarded with the elevation of the county of Guise to a duchy in ...
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