Events from the year 1543 in
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...
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Francis I
Events
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Siege of Landrecies May 1543 - November 1543
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Siege of Nice 6-22 August 1543
Births
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Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
Charles III (18 February 1543 – 14 May 1608), known as ''the Great'', was Duke of Lorraine from 1545 until his death.
Life
He was the eldest surviving son of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, and Christina of Denmark.
In 1545, his father died, a ...
(died 1608).
Full date missing
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Louis Bellaud, writer (died 1588)
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François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, military officer (died 1626)
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Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy
Nicolas IV de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy (1543 – 12 November 1617) was a secretary of state under four kings of France: Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIII. The most distinguished of all sixteenth-century French secretaries, ...
, secretary of state (died 1617)
Deaths
Full date missing
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Jean Le Veneur, Roman Catholic cardinal, died 7 or 8 August 1543.
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Philippe de Chabot, admiral (born c.1492)
See also
References
1540s in France
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