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Henri de Guise — Head of the Catholic League, murdered at Blois on Henri III’s orders in 1588
Duke at twelve on the death of his father, for whose death he held Coligny responsible, scarred at Dormans in 1575, he founded the League, drew a pension from Spain and drove the king from Paris in 1588. Named lieutenant general of the kingdom and summoned to the estates at Blois, he was stabbed by the Forty-Five in the king’s own chamber; his body burned, his ashes thrown into the Loire. (Editorial synthesis)
Henri de Guise was born on 31 December 1550 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Henri de Guise died on 23 December 1588. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Henri de Guise died in Blois. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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