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  2. Château d'Amboise - Wikipedia

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    The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII died at the château in 1498 after hitting his head on a door lintel. The château fell ...

  3. Clos Lucé - Wikipedia

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    The Chateau was then taken over by Michel of Gast, who was the Guards Captain under King Henri III of France and became the owner after the murder of the Cardinal of Guise by the king himself, in 1583. In 1632, the marriage of Antoine d’Amboise and Michel de Gast's granddaughter brought the Chateau back in the hands of House Amboise.

  4. Amboise - Wikipedia

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    Here was born in 1743 Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, known as Le Philosophe Inconnu (d. 1803). Abd el Kader Ibn Mouhi Ad-Din (c. 1807 – 1883) was imprisoned at the Château d'Amboise. In 2019, the 500th anniversary of da Vinci's death, Amboise held many events celebrating the master's life and his work completed in the town ...

  5. List of castles in the Centre-Val de Loire region - Wikipedia

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    Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil: 14th century Intact Private Part medieval, part Renaissance. Château de Bannegon: Château de Culan: 12-15th century Restored Private Renaissance additions. Château du Grand-Besse: 15th century Fragment Keep survives, with later buildings. Donjon de Jouy: 14th century Ruins Château de Mehun-sur-Yèvre

  6. House of Amboise - Wikipedia

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    The house of Amboise formed the two branches of Thouars (extinct in 1469 in the house of La Trémoille) and Chaumont (extinct in 1525) that gave the branches of Bussy (extinct in 1515) and Aubijoux (extinct in 1656). [1] Cardinal Georges d'Amboise (1460–1510) was the son of Pierre d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont.

  7. Edict of Amboise (1560) - Wikipedia

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    The Edict of Amboise (1560) was a decree that created the framework to separate heresy from sedition, promulgated by the young king Francis II on the advice of his council and mother Catherine de' Medici.

  8. Charles II d'Amboise - Wikipedia

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    Charles II d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont (1473 – 11 March 1511 [1]) was a French nobleman, who acted as French governor of Milan (1503–1511) during the reign of Louis XII and as a French commander during the War of the League of Cambrai.

  9. Amboise conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, was a failed attempt by a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young King Francis II and to reverse the policies of the current administration of Francis, Duke of Guise and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine through their arrest, and potentially execution.