House of Guise

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Chapters: Mary of Guise, Anna d'Este, Francis, Duke of Guise, Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, List of consorts of Elbeuf, Marie of Lorraine, Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Marie de Rohan, Chevalier de Lorraine, Charles III, Duke of Elbeuf, François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne, Louise Marguerite of Lorraine, Louis, Count of Armagnac, Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine, Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise, Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Louis, Prince of Brionne, Princess Joséphine of Lorraine, Emmanuel Maurice, Duke of Elbeuf, Henri, Duke of Elbeuf, Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine, Counts and Dukes of Guise, François Louis, Count of Harcourt, Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Charles Louis, Count of Marsan, Charles, Count of Marsan, Gaston, Count of Marsan, Catherine of Cleves, Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine, Camille, Prince of Marsan, Charles, Prince of Commercy, Claude, Duke of Guise, Charlotte of Lorraine, Charles, Count of Armagnac, Antoinette de Bourbon, François Joseph, Duke of Guise, Louis, Prince of Lambesc, Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt, List of Dukes of Joyeuse, Joseph, Count of Harcourt, Hôtel de Soubise, Louis III, Cardinal of Guise, Claude, Duke of Chevreuse, Claude, Duke of Aumale, Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse, Charles, Duke of Aumale. Excerpt: Mary of Guise (French: ) (22 November 1515 ¿ 11 June 1560) was the Lorraine-born queen consort of Scotland as the second spouse of King James V. She was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and served as regent of Scotland in her daughter's name from 1554 to 1560. She was a member of the powerful House of Guise, which played a prominent role in 16th century French politics. Mary was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, the eldest daughter of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, head of the French House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette de Bourbon, herself the daughter of Francis, Count of Vendome and Marie de Luxembourg. Among her 11 siblings were Francis, Duke of Guise, Claude, Duke of Aumale, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Louis I, Cardinal of Guise. Mary was tall and her mother mentioned in a letter that she suffered from bad colds and had greasy hair. On 4 August 1534, at the age of 18, she married Louis II, Duke of Longueville (born 1510), becoming the Duchess of Longueville, at the Louvre in a union that turned out to be happy but brief. On 30 October 1535, Mary gave birth to her first son, Francis, but on 9 June 1537, Louis died at Rouen and left her a widow at the age of 21. For the rest of her life, Mary kept the last letter from her bon mari et ami, her good husband and friend Louis, which mentioned his illness and explained his absence at Rouen, and it can still be seen at the National Library of Scotland. On 4 August, Mary gave birth to their second son, who was named Louis after his deceased father. Louis died very young, but Francis wrote letters to his mother in Scotland; on 22 March 1545 he sent a piece of string to show how tall he was, and on 2 July 1546 he sent her his portrait. Later in 1537, Mary became the focus of marriage negotiations with James V of Scotland, who had lost his first wife, Madeleine of Valois, due to tuberculosis, and wanted a second French bride to further the interests of the Franco-Scottish alliance against England. According to