Louis de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise et prince-évêque de Metz was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Bishop during the Italian Wars and French Wars of Religion. The fourth son of Claude, Duke of Gui
Portrait of the Cardinal
1560 Assembly of Notables
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The 1560 Assembly of Notables was a gathering of the political elite of the kingdom of France from 21 to 26 August 1560 that aimed to find a solution to France's political, religious and financial cri
Château de Fontainebleau, at which the Assembly would be held, during the sixteenth-century
François II, whose reign would be plagued by political and religious crisis
Bloody suppression of the Conjuration d'Amboise
Cardinal de Lorraine, leader of the French government and one of the architects of the moderation of the persecution of Protestants during 1560