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He was one of the nobles who accompanied Mary Stuart to Scotland in 1561, and while returning visited the Court of England. He had already in 1562 waged successful war against the Huguenots in Normandy. Brantôme, his secretary, describes him at length in vol. v., pp. 62-77, Mérimée's edition, Paris, 1858.
HENRY II., son of Francis I. and Claude de France, was born at Saint Germain-en-Laye, March 31, 1519. Although he continued his father's persistent persecution of the French Protestants, he was, at the same time, at the head of the league of Protestant princes opposed to Charles V. In this conflict he was successful and took Toul, Metz, and Verdun from Germany in 1552.
At the age of twenty he married Claude, daughter of Louis XII., and succeeded his father-in-law, January 1, 1515. His first act was to undertake the conquest of the French possessions in Italy which had been lost during the reign of Louis XII. He was successful and regained Milan with Lombardy.
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