(François de Lorraine; 27 February 1572 – 14 October 1632) was the son of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine and Claude of Valois. He was Duke of Lorraine briefly...

Nicolas of Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur (16 October 1524 – 23 January 1577), was the second son of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, and Renée de Bourbon. He was...

have later restored Lorraine's status as its own duchy, but a vacuum in leadership occurred. Its duke Francois Stephen de Lorraine took the throne of the...

eldest son of François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville (1700–1770), Étienne François was born in Nancy in the Duchy of Lorraine where his father...

de Neufville (1639-1707), the youngest daughter of Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, governor of a young Louis XIV. She was a sister of François de Neufville...

François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (19 August 1558 – 3 August 1614) was the third son of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, a junior line of the House...

Marguerite of Lorraine (1588 – 30 April 1631) was a daughter of the Duke of Guise and a member of the House of Lorraine. She married François de Bourbon, titled...

the Lorraine brothers were). They also continued the persecution of Protestantism that had transpired under Henri II, though with the young François on...

Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval and had issue; Françoise of Lorraine (28 February 1664) died in infancy; François Armand of Lorraine, chevalier de Lorraine...

of revolution era General Nicolas Haxo of Étival-Clairefontaine and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine, France. François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo was born in Lunéville...

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar (French: Charles Léopold Nicolas Sixte; German: Karl V Leopold; 3 April 1643 – 18 April 1690) succeeded his uncle...

younger brother of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine and Claude, Duke of Guise. His younger brother, François, Comte de Lambesc, died in the Battle of Pavia...

born at Nancy on 31 July 1570, the son of Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur, and his third wife, Catherine of Lorraine (1550-1606). Henri began his military career...

Lorraine would fall to his uncle, Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur. In 1559, the House of Guise, fearing the influence of the Holy Roman Empire over Lorraine...

Piney remarried to Marguerite de Lorraine in 1599, the daughter of Nicolas de Lorraine, duke of Mercœur and Joanne de Savoie. Marguerite would outlive...

Marie de Lorraine (15 August 1615 – 3 March 1688) was the daughter of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse and the last...

of Lorraine (November 1592 – 8 September 1669) was a princess of Lorraine and daughter-in-law of Henry IV of France. Sometimes known as Françoise de Mercœur...

François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (16 January 1616 – 25 June 1669) was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent...

The elder son of Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival, Nicolas Durival spent his entire career in the Lorraine administration. Having a good education, he was...

Louise of Lorraine (French: Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont; 30 April 1553 – 29 January 1601) was Queen of France as the wife of King Henry III from their...

François-Antoine Devaux (12 December 1712, in Lunéville – 11 April 1796, or 22 germinal year IV, Lunéville) was a Lorraine (and, after 1766, French) poet...

aunt Catherine of Lorraine—the Abbess of Remiremont. Two of her older brothers, Charles and Nicolas, were successively dukes of Lorraine. While taking refuge...

French) Nicolas Le Roux, La faveur du roi: mignons et courtisans au temps des derniers Valois, Champ Vallon, 2001, p. 73. (in French) Nicolas Le Roux...

certain military terms (régiment de Royal Lorraine). His father was a lawyer in Nancy. His brother was Nicolas-François-Xavier Liébault (1716-1800). The...

of the most prominent figures of the Renaissance in the Duchy of Lorraine. Nicolas Volcyr was born in Serrouville in the Duchy of Bar around 1480. His...

of Religion. He served under five French kings (Louis XII, François I, Henri II, François II and Charles IX). He began his career in the latter Italian...

Francis II (French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of...

high-ranking members of the Lorraine court, including Princess Catherine of Lorraine and the brothers François de Bassompierre and Je(h)an de Bassompierre. Du Souhait...

branch of the House of Lorraine, where he held the rank of a prince étranger at the French court. Her mother was a daughter of Nicolas de Neufville, Duke of...

Françoise de Lorraine (1707 – 31 March 1737) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. She was...