Martyrs And Murderers: The Guise Family And The Making Of Europe (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Like many Catholics, he was impressed, for though he considered most noblemen lazy and immoral, he was comforted that the Guise ‘were not yet infected by heresy or false religion’. 1 They were celebrating not one but three weddings. The marriage of Charles de Mayenne had been celebrated at Meudon on 6 August and the family were on their way to celebrate a double wedding at Joinville: the 21-year-old Charles, Duke of Aumale, to his first cousin, Marie, daughter of the Marquis of Elbeuf—tall and pretty she would one day become the king’s lover. The marriage of cousins was common, but first cousins less so, and the papal dispensation must have been expensive. The Duke of Guise also agreed to pay the dowry of 100,000 livres. Two days later, Aumale’s sister, Diane, married François de Luxembourg, Duke of Piney, a neighbour whose credentials were that he was ‘very rich, solvent and has a good house and furniture’. 2 Many familiar faces had disappeared since the Massacre.
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