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Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, duke de Mercoeur
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Born September 9, 1558 • France
Died February 19, 1602 (aged 43) • Nürnberg • Germany
Role In Wars of Religion

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Mercoeur, portrait by Benjamin Foulon, 1600; in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
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Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de’ Medici
queen of France
Henry III
Henry III
king of France and Poland
François de Lorraine, 2 duc de Guise
French noble
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Anne, Duke de Montmorency, drawing by the school of Clouet, c. 1560; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Anne, duke de Montmorency
French noble
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly
French diplomat
Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
John IV
duke of Brittany [1340–1399]
Monluc, engraving
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Monluc
French soldier
Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
François de Beaumont, baron des Adrets
French military leader
Charles of Blois
Charles
duke of Brittany
François de La Noue
Huguenot leader
John V
duke of Brittany [1389-1442]
Charles de Gontaut, baron and duke de Biron
French baron and duke
François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron
French military leader
John
duke of Brittany [died 1345]