Marie de Guise (1515-1560)

See also: Marie, Marie de Guise

Marie de Guise , born on November 22nd 1515 with Bar-le-Duc, deceased on June 10th 1560 with Edinburgh, is the girl of Claude of Lorraine and Antoinette of Bourbon-Vendôme.

She married on August 4th 1534, in Louvre, Louis II of Orleans, Duc of Longueville, of which she had a son, François III of Longueville, born on October 20th 1535
June 12th, 1538, she married, in second weddings, in Saint-Andrews, the king Jacques V of Scotland, from which she had a girl, born on December 8th 1542, Marie Stuart.

The king Jacques V having died on December 14th 1542, Marie de Guise assumed regency. In 1548, it sent in France the Marie princess and supported her marriage in 1558 with the dolphin Francois, the future king François II of France.

Being pressed on French troops, it had to face the expansion of Protestantism in Scotland. Violently denounced by the theologist John Knox, it met an increasing opposition, encouraged by the Queen of England Elisabeth I {{Re}}.

The revolt of the aristocratic opposition (Covenant), supported by England developed when in 1560, Marie de Guise died. The Treated of Edinburgh of the July 6th 1560, ordered the expulsion of the French soldiers and in August, Protestantism was proclaimed religion of State by the Scottish Parliament.

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