Le Duc de Guise est blessé à mort, le 18. de Feurier. 1563.

Title

Le Duc de Guise est blessé à mort, le 18. de Feurier. 1563.

Description

The wood cut depicts the attack on Francis de Lorraine II, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Duke of Aumale( 1519 – 1563). In the back ground the city of Orleans. The Duke of Guise was a French soldier and politician. By religion, he practised Catholicism, at a time when France was being polarized between the Catholics and Huguenots. In the fourth encounter, Guise was about to take Orléans from the Huguenot supporters of Condé when he was wounded on 18 February 1563 by the Huguenot assassin, Jean de Poltrot de Méré, and died six days later, bled to death by his surgeons, at Château Corney.

ca. 1560

Artist

Tortorel/ Perrissin

Jacques Tortorel was a french wood cutter and isseud his illustration together with Jean Perrissin (1536-1611).