Charles de Guise

Male 1524 - 1574  (50 years)


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  • Name Charles de Guise  [1
    Born 17 Feb 1524  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 Dec 1574  [1
    Buried Reims, la Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID P5195  Woelfel Family Tree
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2020 

    Father Claude I de Lorraine, "1st Duke of Guise",   b. 20 Oct 1496, Custines, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1550, Joinville, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Antoinette de Bourbon-Vendome (de Lorraine),   b. 25 Dec 1493, Hamm, Somme, Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1583, Joinville, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1392  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Nobility, clergy, Duc de Chevreuse and Cardinal, second eldest son of Claude de Lorraine and Antoinette de Bourbon. He crowned Henri II, Francois II and Charles IX.

      Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, John, Cardinal of Lorraine (1550). He was the protector of Rabelais and Ronsard and founded Reims University. He is sometimes known as the Cardinal de Lorraine.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1268993674] Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).