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Charles de Lorraine, 2nd cardinal de Lorraine
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Born February 15, 1524 • Joinville • France
Died December 26, 1574 (aged 50) • Avignon • France
House / Dynasty house of Guise
Role In Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
Henry II, portrait by François Clouet, 1559; in the Pitti Gallery, Florence
Henry II
king of France
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Jules Cardinal Mazarin
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin
French cardinal and statesman
Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.
Suger
French abbot
Henry de Guise
Henri I de Lorraine, 3 duc de Guise
French noble
Félicité Lamennais, oil on canvas by Paulin-Guérin, 1826; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons, France.
Félicité Lamennais
French priest
Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
Charlest, count de Montalember
French politician and historian
Henri Lacordaire
French priest
Guillaume Briçonnet
French bishop
Fesch, detail of a lithograph by the de Becquet brothers after a drawing by Fischer
Joseph Fesch
French cardinal
Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century
Jean du Bellay
French cardinal and diplomat
Jean Balue
French cardinal
Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne
French cardinal and statesman
Dupanloup, engraving
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup
bishop of Orléans
Mary Of The Incarnation
French mystic
Duprat, detail from a lithograph, 1527
Antoine Duprat
French chancellor and cardinal