Catherine de Medici1560
The "Amboise conspiracy", or "Tumult of Amboise", the attempt on the part of a group of disaffected nobles (led by Jean du Barry.
France · House / House of Line of Anjou. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The "Amboise conspiracy", or "Tumult of Amboise", the attempt on the part of a group of disaffected nobles (led by Jean du Barry.
The Guise brothers suspected Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Cond‚ of leading the plot, and he was arrested but eventually freed for lack of evidence, adding to the tensions of the period.
seigneur de la Renaudie) to abduct the young king and eliminate the Guise faction, is foiled.
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