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Amboise, conspiracy of, 1560, plot of the Huguenots (French Protestants) and the house of Bourbon Bourbon , European royal family, originally of France; a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. One branch of the Bourbons occupies the modern Spanish throne, and other branches ruled the Two Sicilies and Parma.
..... Click the link for more information. to usurp the power of the Guise Guise , influential ducal family of France. The First Duke of Guise

The family was founded as a cadet branch of the ruling house of Lorraine by Claude de Lorraine, 1st duc de Guise, 1496–1550, who received the French fiefs of his father,
..... Click the link for more information. family, which virtually ruled France during the reign of the young Francis II Francis II, 1544–60, king of France (1559–60), son of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. He married (1558) Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart), and during his brief reign the government was in the hands of her uncles, François and Charles de
..... Click the link for more information. . The plan, presumably worked out by Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé Condé , family name of a cadet branch of the French royal house of Bourbon. The name was first borne by

Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530–69, Protestant leader and general.
..... Click the link for more information. , provided for a march on the castle of Amboise, the abduction of King Francis II, and the arrest of François, duc de Guise, and his brother Charles, cardinal of Lorraine. The cardinal was forewarned, and the rebels, beaten before they had united their forces, were ruthlessly massacred. For weeks the bodies of hundreds of conspirators were hanging from the castle and from every tree in the vicinity. The Huguenots were enraged. A brief period of conciliation followed under the chancellorship of Michel de L'Hôpital L'Hôpital or L'Hospital, Michel de , c.1505–1573, chancellor of France under Catherine de' Medici.
..... Click the link for more information. , appointed by the king's mother, Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici , 1519–89, queen of France, daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino. She was married (1533) to the duc d'Orléans, later King Henry II.
..... Click the link for more information. . He temporarily halted Protestant persecution until the outbreak (1562) of the Wars of Religion.

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