Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Mary Queen of Scots. Her mother was the sister of twovery arribitious French nobles, the Duke of Guise and the cardinalof Lorraine. Francis II was so young that Marys uncles, theGuises, eagerly seized the opportunity to manage his affairs forhim. The duke put himself at the head of the army, and thecardinal of the government. When the king died, after reigningbut a year, the Guises were naturally reluctant to surrender theirpower, and many of the woes of F
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Mary Queen of Scots. Her mother was the sister of twovery arribitious French nobles, the Duke of Guise and the cardinalof Lorraine. Francis II was so young that Marys uncles, theGuises, eagerly seized the opportunity to manage his affairs forhim. The duke put himself at the head of the army, and thecardinal of the government. When the king died, after reigningbut a year, the Guises were naturally reluctant to surrender theirpower, and many of the woes of France for the next forty yearswere due to the machinations which they carried on in the nameof the Holy Catholic religion. The new king, Charles IX (1560-1574), was but ten yearsold, 30 that his mother, Catherine of Medici, of the famous 1 See Readings, Vol. II, chap, xxviii, See above, p. 188. The Wars of Religion 339 Florentine family, claimed the right to conduct the govern-ment for her son until he reached manhood. By this time the Protestants in France had become a power-ful party. They were known as Huguenots^ and accepted the. Fig. Francis II of France This is from a contemporaneous engraving. The boy king, the firsthusband of Mary Queen of Scots, died when he was only 17 years old religious teachings of their fellow countryman, Calvin. Many The Hugue-of them, including their great leader Coligny, belonged to the hefrApoliticalnobility. They had a strong support in the king of the little ^™srealm of Navarre, on the southern boundary of France, He 1 The origin of this name is uncertain. 340 Medieval and Modern Times o CO « o pq KH Q < o ? m >> 0 13 OJ K>W m m S-l u a 6 w s ?O 1 ^S ?^ (0 ^ —HH C rt O 3 >% S 0x1 1-1 - g> X 3o?J 5 0 H ffi H fa 0 en B ?o-^ {-• a> w h Jirf lO 3 3 ^ pj ^ T3 px c4 S iJ rt r^-H- 0 « 1-1 T -< 1 u -I-I- U SkJ rt -a w « a ^ e BO 0) C4_S SfH •^ 05 Hi o U 3.^00 •SO. - « £2 The Wars of Religion
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