Claude, Duke of Guise

Claude de Lorraine
Claude de Lorraine
Duke of Guise
	Portrait by Jean Clouet
Count / Duke of Guise
Reign	10 December 1508 – 12 April 1550
Successor	Francis
Born	20 October 1496; Château de Custines
Died	12 April 1550 (aged 53); Château de Joinville
Noble family	Guise
Spouse(s)	Antoinette de Bourbon (m. 1513)
Issue	Marie, Queen of Scotland; Francis, Duke of Guise; Renée, Abbess of St. Pierre; Charles, Archbishop of Reims; Claude, Duke of Aumale; Louis I, Cardinal of Guise; Antoinette, Abbess of Faremoutier; Francis, Grand Prior of the Order of Malta; René, Marquis of Elbeuf;
Father	René II, Duke of Lorraine
Mother	Philippa of Guelders

Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (20 October 1496 – 12 April 1550) was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528.

He was a highly effective general for the French crown. His children and grandchildren were to lead the Catholic party in the French Wars of Religion.