2-715-728 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Assassination of Henry, Duke of Guise', (December 1588), 1890. Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550-1588) founded the Catholic League and was a key figure in the French Wars of Religion, as an opponent of Catherine de' Medici, he was assassinated by the Forty-five guards (bodyguards) of her son, King Henry III at the Chateau de Blois. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]