Claude, Duke of Guise

Claude de Lorraine
Duc de Guise

Portrait of Claude, Duke of Guise by Jean Clouet
Born (1496-10-20)20 October 1496
Château de Condé-sur-Moselle
Died 12 April 1550(1550-04-12) (aged 53)
Château de Joinville
Noble family House of Lorraine
Spouse(s) Antoinette de Bourbon
(m. 1513–50; his death)

Issue

Marie, Queen consort of Scotland
Francis, Duke of Guise
Renée, Abbess of St. Pierre
Charles, Archbishop of Reims
Claude, Duke of Aumale
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise
Antoinette, Abbess of Faremoutier
Francis, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta
René, Marquis of Elbeuf
Father René II, Duke of Lorraine
Mother Philippa of Guelders
Religion Roman Catholicism
Coat of arms of the Duke of Guise

Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (20 October 1496, Château de Condé-sur-Moselle, – 12 April 1550, Château de Joinville) was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528.

Biography

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 (1493–1583), daughter of François, Count of Vendôme.

Military service

Claude distinguished himself at the Battle of Marignano (1515), 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 (Zabern). 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. The Guises, as cadets of the sovereign House of Lorraine and descendants of the Capetian House of Anjou, claimed precedence over the Bourbon princes of Condé and Conti.

Marriage and issue

Claude married Antoinette de Bourbon,[1] daughter of François, Count of Vendôme and Marie de Luxembourg, on 9 June 1513; they had 12 children:

Ancestry

Notes

  1. Bell 2004, p. 127.

References

See also

Claude, Duke of Guise
Born: 20 October 1496 Died: 12 April 1550
Preceded by
René
Count of Guise
Lord of Elbeuf

1508–1528
Elevation
Count of Aumale
1508–1547
Succeeded by
Francis
New title
Elevation
Duke of Guise
1528–1550
Marquis of Elbeuf
1528–1550
Succeeded by
René


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