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    Amboise (US: /ɒ̃ˈbwɑːz/; French: [ɑ̃bwaz] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home...
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    The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in...
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    The Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, was a failed attempt by a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young king Francis...
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    and was also at the coronation. Later he supported the repression of the Amboise conspiracy of 1560, notably by going to the Parlement to communicate to...
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    Ambroise Paré (redirect from Amboise Paré)
    Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III...
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  • association football club founded in 1920. They are based in the town of Amboise and their home stadium is the Stade Georges Boulogne. As of the 2009–10...
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  • Adelais of Amboise (sometimes called Aelinde) (fl. 865), came from an influential Frankish family in the Loire Valley. Through her mother, whose name...
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  • of Amboise (Mahaut, Mathilde d'Amboise; c. 1200 ‒ 12 May 1256) was the Countess of Chartres 1248-1256. She was the daughter of Sulpice III of Amboise and...
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    The House of Amboise was one of the oldest families of the French nobility whose followed filiation dated back to the early twelfth century. It took its...
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  • The canton of Amboise is an administrative division of the Indre-et-Loire department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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    appointed Lieutenant-General of France. In 1560, a group of Huguenot nobles at Amboise had planned to try to abduct King Francis II and arrest the Catholic leaders...
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    support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in the conspiracy of Amboise and its aftermath, pushed him to the centre of French politics. Arrested...
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    The Edict of Amboise, also known as the Edict of Pacification, was signed at the Château of Amboise on 19 March 1563 by Catherine de' Medici, acting as...
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    The Edict of Amboise (1560) was a decree that created the framework to separate heresy from sedition, promulgated by the young king Francis II on the...
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    Amboise station (French: Gare d'Amboise) is a railway station serving the town Amboise, Indre-et-Loire department, central France. It is situated on the...
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    Touraine-Amboise is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for in the Loire Valley wine region in France. It is situated within the wider Touraine AOC...
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    formerly called Manoir du Cloux, is a large château located in the center of Amboise, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region...
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    Republic of Florence Died 2 May 1519(1519-05-02) (aged 67) Clos Lucé, Amboise, Kingdom of France Resting place Château d'Amboise Education Studio of...
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    countess of Boulogne. The young couple had been married the year before at Amboise as part of the alliance between King Francis I of France and Lorenzo's...
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  • Anne Emmanuel François Georges de Crussol, Marquis of Amboise (30 May 1726 – 26 July 1794) was a French nobleman and military officer who was a deputy...
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    list of World Heritage Sites. The valley includes historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours. The climate...
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  • Geoffrey Burel of Amboise (d. 1101) was Lord of Amboise jure uxoris and a knight in the Crusade of 1101, fighting in the army of William IX. Note that...
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    Roman Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers...
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    Elisabeth of Valois to the Spanish border. In 1560, the organisers of the Amboise conspiracy tried to recruit him as a figurehead for their efforts against...
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    to bring the war to a negotiated settlement, achieved in the Edict of Amboise on 19 March 1563. With the death of Henri II in 1559, France was thrown...
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    When the Mind Hears. Random House Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Roch-Amboise-Auguste Bébian" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...
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    Isabelle of Blois or Elizabeth of Blois (died 1248 or 1249) was the lady of Amboise by marriage and from 1218 until her death the countess of Chartres in her...
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    from Naples named Pacello da Mercogliano. They decided to reproduce in Amboise the marvels of Tuscany and elected a 15 hectares amphitheater-shaped land...
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    first son was granted the Marshal baton. In the wake of the Conspiracy of Amboise, in which Protestants attempted to seize the king and kill his advisers...
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    With his brother the Prince of Condé implicated in the Conspiracy of Amboise in March 1560, and further troubles in the south in the following months...
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