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CHARLES , 4th See also:

duke of See also:Guise (1571–1640), was imprisoned for three years after his See also:father's See also:death. He married Henriette See also:Catherine de Joyeuse, widow of the duke of See also:Montpensier. His eldest son predeceased him, and he was succeeded by his second son See also:HENRY (1614–1664), who had been See also:archbishop of See also:Reims, but renounced the ecclesiastical See also:estate and became 5th duke. He made an See also:attempt (1647) on the See also:crown of See also:Naples, and was a prisoner in See also:Spain from 1648 to 1652. A second expedition to Naples in 1654 was a fiasco. He was succeeded by his See also:nephew, See also:Louis See also:JosEPH (1650-1671), as 6th duke. With his son, See also:FRANCIS JOSEPH (167o-1675), the See also:line failed; and the See also:title and estates passed to his See also:great-aunt, See also:Marie of See also:Lorraine, duchess of Guise 2 Philippe-See also:Emmanuel of Lorraine, duke of Mercoeur, a See also:cadet of Lorraine and See also:brother of See also:Louise de Vaudemont, Henry See also:Ill.'s See also:queen. His wife, See also:Mary of See also:Luxemburg, descended from the See also:dukes of See also:Brittany, and he was made See also:governor of the See also:province in 1582. He aspired to See also:separate See also:sovereignty, and called his son See also:prince and duke of Brittany. Rene II. (who See also:united the two branches of the See also:house of Lorraine), duke of Lorraine, and Philippa of See also:Gelderland,' had (besides two older boys who died in childhood, and' four unmarried daughters) See also:Antoine, See also:Claude, duke of Lorraine, 1st duke of Guise, 1'1544, t1550, ancestor of the dukes of =Antoinette of See also:Bourbon. Lorraine and the house of Mercceur.

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John, 1st See also:cardinal of Lorraine. See also:Ferri, Louis, Francis, killed at Marignano. killed at Naples. killed at See also:Pavia. Louis, 1st cardinal of Guise, 1'1578 Fralncis, Charles, 2nd duke of Guise, 2nd cardinal of Lorraine, t1563, 1'1574. =See also:Anne of See also:Este. Claude, See also:marquis of See also:Mayenne and duke of See also:Aumale, 1'1573, Louise de Brezk. Charles, duke of Aumale, t163I. Francis, Rene, See also:grand See also:prior. marquis of See also:Elbeuf, fi566. Charles, duke of Elbeuf, f16o5. Marie = And five others. (I) duke of See also:Longueville, (2) See also:James V. of See also:Scotland. Mary tuart, queen of Scots. And five others.

Henry, 3rd duke, 1'1588=Cather- See also:

ine of See also:Cleves (and had 14 See also:children),Charles, duke of Mayenne, f161I. Henry, duke of Mayenne, f162I. Louis, Catherine = 2nd cardinal of Guise, Louis de Bourbon, • f 1588. duke of Montpensier. Charles, 4th duke of Guise, t 164o. Claude, duke of Chevreuse, = Marie de See also:Rohan, widow of the duke of See also:Luynes. Henry, archbishop of Reims, and 5th duke, t1664.' Marie, called Mlle. de Guise, succeeded to the duchy in 1675 and sold her rights to Louis See also:Augustus, duke of See also:Maine. Louis, 3rd cardinal of Guise, t162I. s And eleven more. Louis, And eight more. See also:chevalier of Guise and duke of Joyeuse, 1'1654. Louis-Joseph, 6th duke of Guise, t l'571. Francis-Joseph, 7th and last duke of Guise, t I675• (1615-1688), daughter of the 4th duke, and with her the title after their introduction from See also:Italy in 1788 by the duchess Amalie became See also:extinct. The title is now vested in the See also:family of the of See also:Weimar.

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Otto i states that it was Capellmeister See also:Naumann of Bourbon-See also:Orleans princes. See also:Dresden who requested him to make him a See also:guitar with six strings by adding the See also:low E, a spun See also:wire See also:string. The See also:original guitar brought from Italy by the duchess Amalie had five strings,2 the lowest A being the only one covered with wire. Otto also covered the D in See also:order to increase the fulness of the See also:tone. In Spain six-stringed guitars and vihuelas were known in the 16th See also:century; they are described by Juan Bermudo 3 and others.' The lowest string was tuned to G. Other' See also:Spanish guitars of the same See also:period had four, five er seven strings or courses of strings in pairs of unisons.

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