Article: Guise Family

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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