~~~ Rene's sister Marie married King Charles VII of France.
~~~ Rene's daughter Marguerite married King Henry VI of England prominent in the War of the Roses.
~~~ His many titles, including those of Guise and Lorraine, passed through Rene's daughter Iolonde to her son RENE II.
~~~Rene II married Phillipa De Guildre also of the House of Lorraine and had ten children.
~~~ Rene II's eldest son,
Antoine, became the Duke of Lorraine, married Renee DeBourbon Montpensier
~~~ Rene II's second son, Claude, became the Duke of Guise, which became a French Ducal title also.
~~Claude DeGuise {1496~1550} married
Antoinette DeBourbon and had twelve children.~~~ Claude's
eldest, Marie, married first; Louis D'Orleans And second; King
James V of Scotland, becomimg the ancestor of the House of Stuart.
~~~ Claude's second son, Francoise, became the 2nd Duc De Guise
and had seven children. ~Claude's third son, Charles became the
Cardinal of Lorraine { Claude's brother Jean was the First Cardinal }
. Claude's next son Louis became the First Cardinal of Guise and
the Bishop of Metz . Francoise's son HENRI, 3rd Duc De Guise, sired
fourteen children.~~~And thus extends the issue of Rene, the
House of Guise and all it's branches . Authoress Antonia Frazier, in her book "Mary,Queen
of Scots", describes the Guises as the most fascinating family nexus
in all of French History. ~~~
~~~
Interview between Henry Guise and King Henry III of France
Painting by P. C. Comte
Mary, Queen of Scots
Gr.Gr.Gr.Granddaughter of Good King Rene
Daughter of Mary Guise and James V of Scotland
Raised in France by her Grandmother
the Grand Duchess Antoinette Guise and her Guise uncles
Queen of France at age 17, widowed at age 19
~~~~~~~~~~~
. .Duke of Guise Soliloquy Excerpt from "The Massacre of Paris"
by Christopher Marlowe ( or was it Shakespeare? )
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