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Authors: H Noel Williams
Henri II: His Court and Times (65 page)
- Gabelle
, the - revolt against,
223-9 - Gaillard (
cited
) - 117
- Galeazzo, Gian, Duke of Milan
- 5
- Game laws of Henri II
- 303
- Gantois, the
- 133
- Garde, Paulin de la
- 139
and note
,
232
,
233
,
268
,
284
,
290 - Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of Ely
- 245
- Gattinara, Mercurino Arborio de (chief
Minister of Charles V) - 33
- General Councils
- 6
note
; Clement
VII's dread of,
64
,
71
,
74
,
75 - Geneva
- 336
- Genlis
- 191
- Genoa
- 5
,
17
,
19
,
32
,
47
,
50
,
63
,
87
,
106
,
149 - Genouillac, Galiot de
- 19
- German Protestants
- and François I,
32
,
43
,
112
,
130
,
133
note
,
138-9
,
170
;
peace with Charles V,
152
; and the
Interim,
268 - Gersay
- 310
- Ghent, revolt at
- 109
,
112
,
130-1
,
134 - Giberto (
cited
) - 44
note - Gien, Château of
- 79
- Giustiniani (Venetian Ambassador in
France) - 119
- Gomez, Ruy
- 327
- Gondi, Albert de
- 307
- Gonnor, Sieur de
- 274
- Gontaut-Biron
- taken prisoner,
316 - Gonzaga, Ferrante
- 217-18
,
267-8
,
284 - Gorze, Abbey of
- 273
- Goujon, Jean
- work at Anet,
250
,
252 - Grammont, Bishop of Tarbes
- 46
- Gramont, Cardinal de
- 70
,
75
,
84 - Granvelle, Cardinal de
- 101
,
153
,
154
,
327-9
,
330 - Gravelines
- 9
,
319
,
327
,
328 - Grenoble
- 15
- Grey de Wilton, Lord
- 328
,
319 - Grisons, defence of the
- 20
- Grolier
- 252
note - Guadalajara, fêtes at
- 27
and note - Guasto, Marquis del
- 109
,
111
and note
,
139
,
152 - Guelders, Duke of
- 32
- Guicciardini, Francesco (
cited
) - 75
; accompanies Catherine de' Medici to
France,
81 - Guidotti, Antonio
- intrigues of,
244 - Guienne
- 143
; revolt against the
gabelle
,
223-5
; repression of the commune,
226-9 - Guiffrey, M. Georges
- on Diane de
Poitiers,
cited
,
117
note
,
118
,
119
;
256
note
,
259 - Guillotin, M.
- and the insurrection at
Bordeaux,
225 - Guines
- 9
,
245
,
318
,
319
; fall of,
320 - Guiry, Cardinal de, Bishop of Langres
- 210-12
,
213-1 - Guise, Charles de Lorraine, Cardinal de
- see
Lorraine, Cardinal Charles - Guise, Claude de Lorraine, Duc de
- 21
,
25
,
32
note
,
69
note
,
147
,
170
,
171
,
174
note
,
177
; relief of
Péronne,
106
; joins Montmorency,
108
; sons of,
129
and note
,
185
; with the army in the north,
141-2
; his cypher and the forged
letter,
153-4
; quiets the panic in
Paris,
156-7
; personality,
181-2
;
asks favour for his son Charles,
186
; at the coronation of Henri II,
212
; death,
264 - Guise, Duchesse de (Antoinette de
Bourbon) - 240
,
325 - Guise, François de Lorraine, Duc de :
(Duc d'Aumale) - 129
note
,
147
,
159
,
212
; "
le Balafré
,"
166
;
the murder of Enghien,
169-70
;
honours for,
173
,
177
and
note
,
178
; policy of Diane towards,
182
,
183
; seconds La Châtaigneraie,
200
,
202
,
203
; pacification
of Saintonge,
226
; marriage,
231
;
advance on Nancy,
273
,
274
; defence of Metz,
279-82
; humanity towards the wounded Imperialists,
284
; battle of Renty,
289
; fondness
for horses,
304
; at the Queen's
cercle
,
306
; Italian expedition,
313
,
314
; expedition against Calais,
317
,
318
; the marriage of François II,
321
,
322
; his arrogance,
326
; capture of Thionville,
327
; and the
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis,
331-2
;
and the Inquisition,
337
; and death
of Henri II,
341
,
343 - Guise, Jean, Cardinal de Lorraine
- 131
,
173
,
181
,
182
,
273
; death,
264 - Guise, Henri de Lorraine, Duc de
- 293
and note - Guises, the
- policy towards Paul III,
233
; the Scottish marriage,
237
;
English policy of,
245
; Diane de
Poitiers and,
248
,
264
; intrigues
with Paul IV,
312
; unbearable
arrogance of,
326
; and the disgrace
of Montmorency,
349-50 - Gustavus Wasa, King of Sweden
- joins the Anti-Imperial alliance,
140
- Ha, Château du
- 225
- Haddington
- siege of,
230
,
242
;
convention of,
238
,
239 - Haguenau
- Henri II at,
275
,
276 - Hainaut
- 10
,
148
,
150
,
286
,
288 - Ham
- 318
,
319 - Harcourt, Comte d'
- 173
,
211 - Hauréau, M. François
- on Diane (
cited
),
120 - Heilly, Château of
- 187
- Heilly, Mlle. d'
- see
Étampes, Duchesse d' - Henri II, King of France
- his birth,
3
; his childhood,
4
; loses
his mother,
4
; demanded as a
hostage for François I's execution
of the Treaty of Madrid,
32
; sets
out with his elder brother, the
Dauphin François, for Spain,
337
;
the English Ambassador, Dr. John
Taylor's impressions of him,
39
;
exchanged with the Dauphin for his
father on the Bidassoa,
38
,
39
; a ransom of
2,000,000 crowns accepted by Charles V for the liberation of the young princes,
50
; their
cruel captivity in Spain,
51-5
; sets
out with his brother and Queen
Eleanor for France,
56
; release of
the young princes on the Bidassoa
58
,
59
; their arrival at Bayonne,
60
;
unfortunate influence of his captivity
upon his character,
61
,
62
; neglected by his father, who "does not
care for dreamy, sullen, sleepy
children,"
62
; negotiations for his
marriage with Catherine de' Medici,
62-76
; revenue secured him by
François I,
79
; his present to his
bride,
81
; his marriage with
Catherine de' Medici celebrated at
Marseilles,
84-6
; his personal
appearance at this time;
85
and
note
; his early married life,
88
,
89
;
the Milanese demanded for him by
François I, and refused by Charles
V,
95
; becomes heir to the throne
by the death of his elder brother,
the Dauphin François,
98-101
;
joins Anne de Montmorency's camp
at Avignon,
102
,
103
; defers to the
opinions of the Grand-Master,
104
;
his campaign on the Flemish frontier,
107
,
108
; his conduct eulogised
by Montmorency,
108
; his campaign in Italy,
109-11
; beginning
of his liaison with Diane de
Poitiers,
113-25
; has a daughter by a Piedmontese girl, Filippa Duc,
125
,
126
and note
; efforts of François
I's mistress, Madame d'Étampes,
and her friends to make him ashamed
of Diane,
126
,
127
; receives Charles
V on his visit to France in 1539,
131
; accompanies the Emperor on
his entry into Paris,
132
; escorts
him to Valenciennes,
133
; on bad
terms with his younger brother,
the Duc d'Orléans,
134
; his close friendship
with Anne de Montmorency,
135
; efforts of Madame
d'Étampes to alienate François I
from him,
136
; reproved by his
father for his intimacy with Diane
de Poitiers,
136
; the Constable's
supposed devotion to his interests
the chief cause of that Minister's
disgrace,
136-8
; invades Roussillon
and lays siege to Perpignan,
142-4
;
compelled to raise the siege and
evacuate the province,
144
; birth
and baptism of his eldest son,
afterwards François II,
145-8
;
question of the dissolution of his
marriage with Catherine de' Medici,
146
and note
; his campaign in Hainaut,
in 1543,
148
,
149
; in command of the French Grand Army in
1544,
154
,
155
; entreats his father
to recall Montmorency, but without
success,
155
; his magazines at Épernay and
Château-Thierry captured by the Imperialists,
155
,
156
;
falls back to Meaux to cover the
capital,
156
; his indignation at the
Peace of Crépy,
158
,
159
; enters
a secret protest against it,
159
;
leads his army into Picardy, to endeavour to recover Boulogne from the
English,
159
; failure of his night-attack upon the town,
160-2
; on
bad terms with his father,
163
;
"sells the bear's skin before the
bear is killed," with unpleasant
consequences,
164
,
165
; loses his
younger brother, the Duc d'Orléans,
166
; urges François I to invade Lombardy,
166
; his accession anticipated with hopefulness by both
Court and people,
167
; his portrait
by the Venetian Ambassador,
Marino Cavalli,
167
,
168
; singular reflections by the same diplomatist on the
nature of his relations with Diane de Poitiers,
168
,
169
; charge of foul
play made against him in connection with the death of the Comte
d'Enghien,
169
; at his father's
deathbed,
171
; becomes King,
172
;
his interview with Montmorency at
Saint-Cloud,
172
; recalls the Constable and entrusts him with the
supreme direction of affairs,
172
,
173
; his accession followed by
a revolution of the palace,
173
;
orders Madame d'Étampes to surrender the jewels given her by the
late King, and presents them to
Diane de Poitiers,
174
; his munificence to Diane,
175
,
176
; a
conscientious King, but "born to
be governed rather than to govern,"
176
; his infatuation for his mistress
renders him "entirely her subject
and slave,"
176
; the Imperial
Ambassador, Saint-Mauris's impressions of him,
177-9
; confidence which he
reposes in the Constable,
179
; amusing caricature at his expense,
179
;
honours and favours which he bestows on the Guises, the friends and
relatives of Montmorency, and Saint-André,
183-5
;
shameful rapacity of his favourites,
who "devour the King as a lion
his prey,"
185
,
186
; puts a stop to
the prosecution of Madame d'Étampes's friend, the Comte de
Bossut-Longueval, for treasonable
correspondence with the Emperor,
187
; and to the lawsuit of the Duc d'Étampes against his wife,
187
and note
;
visits Paris for the first time since his accession to the throne,
189
;
decides to have the remains of his two brothers conveyed to Saint-Denis at the same
time as those of the late King,
190
;
watches incognito the passage of
the funeral
cortege
through Paris,
190
,
191
; singular conversation on
this occasion between him and
Saint-André and Vieilleville,
190-3
;
suspected of having originated the
report that Jarnac had boasted of
the favours of his stepmother,
Madeleine de Pontguyon,
196
;
rescued from his predicament by
the intervention of La Châtaigneraie,
196
; authorises a judicial duel between La
Châtaigneraie and Jarnac,
197-9
; makes no secret of his
sympathy for the former,
200
;
assists at the duel with his whole
Court,
201
; his extraordinary behaviour after La Châtaigneraie has
been placed
hors de combat
,
206-8
;
does not trouble to visit his defeated
champion,
209
; his
sacre
and
coronation at Rheims,
210-16
; portrait of him by the Venetian Ambassador, Matteo Dandolo,
216
,
217
;
his policy in regard to Italy,
217
;
betroths his natural daughter,
Diane de France, to Orazio Farnese,
grandson of Pope Paul III,
218
;
dissuaded by the Constable from
making war on Charles V,
218
,
219
; undertakes a journey to Piedmont,
219
; mimic combat in his
honour at Beaune,
220
,
221
; amused
by the "bears" of Saint-Jean de
Maurienne,
221
note
; at Turin,
221
,
222
; annexes the marquisate of Saluzzo,
222
; confirms the edict
extending the gabelle, or salt-tax,
to the south-western provinces,
223
;
returns to France,
226
; sends Aumale
and the Constable to suppress the
insurrection in Guienne and Saintonge,
226
; expresses his approval
of Montmorency's severities towards
the insurgents of Bordeaux,
228
;
reduces the
gabelle
in the south-western provinces,
229
; restores
the forfeited rights and liberties
of Bordeaux,
229
; his state entry
into Lyons,
230
,
231
; arranges the
marriage of Antoine de Bourbon
and Jeanne d'Albret,
231
; dowers
Anne d'Este,
231
; his state entry into Paris,
232
; persecutes the Protestants,
232
,
233
; witnesses the burning of a Huguenot who has insulted Diane de
Poitiers,
234
and note
; cherishes the hope of recovering Boulogne from the
English,
236
; favours the Guises' project of a marriage between the Dauphin
and Mary Stuart,
237
; accepts the Scottish nobility's offer of Mary's hand
for his eldest son, and despatches an expedition to Scotland,
238
; his
instructions concerning Mary on her arrival in
France,
240
; charmed with the
little Queen,
241
; his letter to her
mother, Marie de Guise,
241
,
242
;
in the War of Boulogne,
139
,
244
;
makes peace with England,
244
;
presents an image of the Holy
Virgin to the cathedral of Boulogne
after the restoration of the town
to France,
245
; exchanges embassies
with Edward VI,
245
; his eldest
daughter, Madame Élisabeth, betrothed to the young King of England,
245
,
246
and
note
, creates
Anne de Montmorency duke and
peer of France,
247
; ascendency of
Diane de Poitiers over him,
248
;
presents her with the Château of Chenonceaux, and creates her
Duchesse de Valentinois,
248
,
249
;
his visits to her Château of Anet,
253
; his devotion to Diane,
253
;
his letters to her,
253-6
; his obligations to her,
257
; question of
her sentiments in regard to him,
257
,
258
; urged by her to fulfil
the duties of a husband,
259
; his
obscure amours,
260
; his liaison
with Lady Fleming, governess of
Mary Stuart,
260
,
261
; has a son
by this lady,
262
; compelled by
Madame de Valentinois and the
Queen to dismiss his Scottish mistress from the Court,
262
and note
,
263
and note
; persuades Diane
and the Constable to make "a semblance of a peace,"
264
; his reply
to the Imperial herald during the
War of Boulogne,
266
note
; takes
Ottavio Farnese under his protection,
267
,
268
; concludes the Treaty
of Chambord with the League of
Schmalkalde,
270
,
271
; detests
Charles V,
271
; obtains the
Parlement's
approval of the war
upon which he is about to enter,
271
; appoints the Queen Regent,
271
,
272
; entertains a high opinion
of the warlike qualities of the French,
272
; reviews his army at Vitry,
272
and note
,
273
; enters Lorraine, deprives the Duchess Christina of the
regency, and sends the young Duke,
Charles X, to France,
274
; joins
the Constable at Metz,
274
; his
high-handed treatment of the town,
274
; invades Alsace,
275
; fails to
get possession of Strasburg,
275
; at
Haguenau,
275
; at Weissembourg,
276
; requested by the Rhine princes
and the Imperial Chamber of Speyer
to advance no further,
276
; seizes
Toul and invades Luxembourg,
277
;
in the trenches before Ivoy,
277
;
falls ill at Sedan,
277
; disbands his
army,
277
; sends the Duc de Guise to defend Metz,
279
; joins Montmorency's army at Rheims,
281
;
unjustly criticized for not reinforcing
the garrison of Metz,
281
; marriage
of his natural daughter, Diane de
France, to Orazio Farnese,
284
; neglects to succour Hesden,
285
; death
of his son-in-law Orazio Farnese
at the taking of the town,
285
; his
futile campaign in the Netherlands,
285
,
286
; alarmed by the projected
marriage of Philip of Spain to Mary
Tudor,
286
,
287
,
and note
; protects
and encourages the English refugees,
287
; his spirited answer to Mary's
demand for the extradition of "her
traitors,"
287
; invades Flanders,
288
; fights the battle of Renty,
288
,
289
; leads his army back to
France,
289
; concludes the Truce of
Vaucelles with the Emperor,
290
;
his popularity,
292
; his amiable
qualities,
292
,
293
; his affection
for his children,
293
; his family,
294-9
; arranges a marriage between
Diane de France and François de
Montmorency,
299
,
300
; issues the
Édit ambitieux
,
301
; his personal
appearance in his later years,
301
;
a most energetic monarch,
301
;
his
lever
,
302
; his reception of
Ambassadors,
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