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Amboise, conspiracy of, 1560, plot of the Huguenots (French Protestants) and the house of Bourbon Bourbon (b
..... Click the link for more information. to usurp the power of the Guise Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, 1555–88, was killed at the same time as Henri. After their deaths the leadership of the League devolved upon their brother, Charles, duc de Mayenne .
..... 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 Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530–69, Protestant leader and general. He fought the Spanish at Metz (1552) and Saint-Quentin (1557) but won little favor at court.
..... 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
..... Click the link for more information. , appointed by the king's mother, Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici (dĕ mĕd`ĭchē, Ital.
..... Click the link for more information. . He temporarily halted Protestant persecution until the outbreak (1562) of the Wars of Religion.