Claude, Duke of Aumale
Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Aumale (18 August 1526, Joinville – 3 March 1573, La Rochelle) was the third son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon. He was a prince of Lorraine by birth.
As part of the Treaty of Boulogne which ended the war of the Rough Wooing, Claude, Marquis of Mayenne, was one of six French hostages sent to England.[1] After their father died on 12 April 1550, Claude was allowed to come to Scotland, with a passport from Edward VI dated 11 May, to see his sister Mary of Guise[2] and wrote from Edinburgh on 18 May that he would view the strong places of the realm.[3]
On 1 August 1547 he married Louise de Brézé (c. 1518 – January 1577), Lady of Anet, the daughter of Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, and Diane de Poitiers. They had eleven children:
- Henri (21 October 1549, Château de Saint-Germain – August 1559), Count of Valentinois
- Catherine Romula (8 November 1550, Saint-Germain – 25 June 1606), married on 11 May 1569 Nicholas, Duke of Mercœur
- Madeleine Diane (b. 5 February 1554), d. young
- Charles, Duke of Aumale (1555–1631)
- Diane (10 November 1558 – 25 June 1586, Ligny), married on 13 November 1576 François, Duke of Piney-Luxemburg
- Antoinette (b. 9 June 1560, Nancy), d. young
- Antoinette Louise (29 September 1561, Joinville – 24 August 1643, Soissons), Abbess of Soissons
- Antoine (b. 12 November 1562), d. young
- Claude (13 December 1564 – 3 January 1591, Saint-Denis), called the "Chevalier d'Aumale", Abbot of St.-Pere-en-Valle, Chartres, Knight of the Order of Malta, General of the Galleys
- Charles (25 January 1566 – 7 May 1568, Paris)
- Marie (10 June 1565 – 27 January 1627), Abbess of Chelles
When his brother Francis acceded as Duke of Guise in 1550 he ceded to Claude the title of Duke of Aumale. He was killed by a culverin shot while besieging La Rochelle.
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Duke of Aumale 1550–1573 |
Succeeded by Charles |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Jordan, W.K., Chronicle of Edward VI, London (1966), 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, (assumes it was Francis, his eldest brother)
- ↑ Lodge, Edmund, Illustrations of British History, vol. 1 (1791), 137, Lambeth Palace Talbot Mss. vol. B, f.205, (Lodge assumed it was Francis, not Claude)
- ↑ Michaud & Poujoulat, Nouvelle Collection des Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de France, vol. 6, (1839), 39, Claude's letter from Edinburgh.