Claude, Duke of Guise
Noble person
1496 – 1550
Who was Claude, Duke of Guise?
Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528.
He was the second son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, and Philippa of Guelders. He was educated at the French court of Francis I. At seventeen, Claude made an alliance to the royal house of France by a marriage with Antoinette de Bourbon, daughter of François, Count of Vendôme.
Claude distinguished himself at the Battle of Marignano, and was long in recovering from the twenty-two wounds he received in the battle. In 1521, he fought at Fuenterrabia, and Louise of Savoy ascribed the capture of the place to his efforts. In 1523, he became governor of Champagne and Burgundy, after defeating at Neufchâteau the imperial troops who had invaded this province. In 1525, he destroyed the Anabaptist peasant army, which was overrunning Lorraine at Lupstein, near Saverne.
On the return of Francis I from captivity in 1528, Claude was made Duke of Guise in the peerage of France, though up to this time only princes of the royal house had held the title of duke and peer of France.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1496
Custines - Also known as
- Claude de Guise
- Claude de Lorraine
- Parents
- Spouses
- Antoinette de Bourbon
(1513/06/09 - )
- Antoinette de Bourbon
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Died
- Apr 12, 1550
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