 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 516 pages
...1559, Francis became king, being then sixteen years of age. He entrusted the government to Francis duke of Guise and his brother the cardinal of Lorraine, uncles of Mary Stuart. This was the beginning of the civil and religious wars which desolated France for half a century. Anthony... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 530 pages
...succeeded by his brother, Châties IX., then a minor. The confidence which he had placed in Francis duke of Guise, and his brother the cardinal of Lorraine, uncles of Mary Stuart, and zealous supporters of popery, led to the civil and religious wars which desolated France for half... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1868 - 638 pages
...of great authority, would probably have determined the king to decline any connexion with the pope. But the duke of Guise, and his brother the cardinal of Lorraine, who delighted no less in bold and dangerous undertakings than Montmorency shunned them, declared warmly... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1875 - 546 pages
...of great authority, would probably have determined the king to decline any connection with the pope. But the duke of Guise, and his brother, the cardinal of Lorraine, who delighted no less in bold and dangerous undertakings than Montmorency shunned them, declared warmly... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1904 - 492 pages
...of great authority, would probably have determined the king to decline any connection with the pope. But the duke of Guise, and his brother, the cardinal of Lorraine, who delighted no less in bold and dangerous undertakings thanMontmorency shunned them, declared warmly... | |
 | Martin Edward Malia - History - 2006 - 382 pages
...royal minorities invariably generated in early modern Europe. The first winners in this struggle were the duke of Guise and his brother, the cardinal of Lorraine, uncles of the king through his wife, Mary of Scotland. Their ultra-Catholicism frightened the now rapidly growing... | |
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... England upon France if it should appear that the re-establishment of tranquillity in Europe was prevented by the ambition of its monarch. These arguments, weighty in themselves, and urged by a minister of great authority, would probably have determined... 