Claude, Duke of Guise

I. Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise, I., duc d' Aumale (* October 20, 1496, † April 12, 1550 in Joinville ) was from 1528 the first Duke of Guise, and Baron of Elbeuf and from 1547 also the first Duke of Aumale.

Life

The second surviving son of René II, Duke of Lorraine and Philippa of funds Claude was taught at the court of King Francis I of France. At 17, Claude married Antoinette de Bourbon ( 1493-1583 ), daughter of François de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme and Marie of Luxembourg ( 1462-1546 ).

Claude distinguished himself at the battle of Marignano ( 1515), in which he drew upon 22 serious wounds. 1521, he fought at Fuenterrabia whose successful conquest of Louise of Savoy ascribed to him. In 1523 he became governor of Champagne and Burgundy, after at Neufchâteau the troops of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, which had occupied the provinces defeated. In 1525 he proposed the Anabaptist peasant army that had invaded Lorraine in Lupstein (near Saverne).

After the return of Francis I from captivity in 1528 that Claude made ​​the Duke of Guise, and raised him to the status of a peer of France, with the title of duke and peer of France has to date only been reserved for princes of the royal house. The Guise, as a side branch of the House of Lorraine and descendants of the younger house of Anjou, a rank were thus similar to the Bourbon princes of Condé and Conti at once.

Claude's eldest son, François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, succeeded him.

Progeny

Claude married in 1513 Antoinette de Bourbon ( 1493-1583 ), daughter of Count François de Bourbon. The couple had the following children:

  • Marie (1515-1560)
  • François (1519-1563)
  • Luise (* January 10, 1520, † October 18, 1542 ) ∞ Charles II de Croy
  • Renée ( born September 2, 1522 † April 3, 1602 ), Abbess of St. Pierre in Reims
  • Charles (1524-1574), French cardinal and diplomat
  • Claude (1526-1573) ∞ Louise de Brézé (* 1518, † 1577)
  • Louis (1527-1578), Cardinal
  • Philipp (* September 3, 1529; † September 24, 1529 )
  • Peter (* April 3, 1530; † young)
  • Antoinette (* August 31, 1531, † March 6, 1561 ), Abbess of Faremoutiers
  • Francis, Grand Prior of the Knights of Malta (* April 18, 1534, † March 6, 1563 )
  • René ( * August 14, 1536, † December 14, 1566 ), Marquis of Elbeuf ∞ February 3, 1555 Louise de Rieux (* 1531, † 1570 )
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