Qui va sortir amb Henry II of France?

Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.

As a child, Henry and his elder brother spent over four years in captivity in Spain as hostages in exchange for their father. Henry pursued his father's policies in matters of art, war, and religion. He persevered in the Italian Wars against the Habsburgs and tried to suppress the Reformation, even as the Huguenot numbers were increasing drastically in France during his reign.

Under the April 1559 Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis which ended the Italian Wars, France renounced its claims in Italy, but gained certain other territories, including the Pale of Calais and the Three Bishoprics. These acquisitions strengthened French borders while the abdication of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in January 1556 and division of his empire between Spain and Austria provided France with greater flexibility in foreign policy. Nostradamus also served King Henry as physician and astrologer.

In June 1559, Henry was injured in a jousting tournament held to celebrate the treaty, and died ten days later after his surgeon, Ambroise Paré, was unable to cure the wound inflicted by Gabriel de Montgomery, the captain of his Scottish Guard. Though he died early, the succession appeared secure, for he left four young sons – as well as a widow (Catherine de' Medici) to lead a capable regency during their minority. Three of those sons lived long enough to become king; but their youth and sometimes infirmity, and the unpopularity of Catherine's regency, led to challenges to the throne by powerful nobles, and helped to spark the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestants, and an eventual end to the House of Valois as France's ruling dynasty.

Nicole de Savigny (1535–1590) was a French noblewoman. She was a mistress to Henry II of France in 1556–57.

Diana de Poitiers (castell de Saint-Vallier (Droma), 3 de setembre de 1499 - Anet, Eure-et-Loir, 25 d'abril de 1566) fou una dama de la noblesa francesa.

Era la filla gran de Jean de Poitiers, comte de Saint-Vallier i de la seva dona Joana de Batarnay. Es casà als tretze anys amb Louis de Brézé, gran senescal de Normandia, enviudà el 1531 i es convertí en amant del delfí, el futur Enric II de França. En pujar aquest al tron (1547), monopolitzà la política francesa, i posà els negocis en mans del conestable Montmorency, del mariscal Saint-André i del cardenal Carles de Guisa, amb el germà del qual, el duc Claudi II d'Aumale, casà la seva segona filla.

El rei li va fer moltes i molt ostentoses donacions com el castell de Chenonceaux. Va ser anomenada el 1548 duquessa de Valentinois per prerrogativa reial. Diana, qui era una catòlica fervent, prengué personalment part en la persecució dels heretges hugonots, dant proves d'una fanatisme exagerat. Durant els regnats de Francesc I de França i Enric II de França la reialesa correspongué a Diana. Ella fou la que organitzà danses, torneigs i gran caceres; ella la que divinitzà l'art de Renaixement; ella la que Jean Goujon esculpí nua i imponent, com una deessa antiga, sota la figura de Diana Caçadora envoltant amb els seus braços el coll d'un gran cérvol; ella la que les medalles representaren tenint un Cupid als seus peus; ella la que Joachim du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard i Jacques Peletier du Mans cantaren en els seus poemes i la que el marcgravi de Thou lloà en la seva història; ella que en la ciutat de Lió, entre les festes amb què obsequià la cort, representà triomfant en l'apoteosi d'un misteri, i d'ella és la xifra sobre l'enteixinat del castell de Chenonceaux i en les voltes i vitrines de la capella de Vincennes.

En la mort del rei (1559), Diana hagué d'abandonar la cort i passà la resta de la seva vida en el sumptuós castell d'Anet, construït per Philibert de l'Orme.

Del seu matrimoni amb Louis de Brézé naixeren dues filles:

• Françoise de Brézé (1518-1574), comtessa de Maulévrier, baronessa de Mauny i de Sérignan. Casada amb Robert IV de la Mark, príncep de Sedán, duc de Bouillon i comte de Braine.
• Louise de Brézé (1521-1577), dama d'Anet, casada con Claudi II de Lorena, duc d'Aumale i marquès de Mayenne.

Jane Stuart est un nom pouvant désigner:

• Jane Stuart (Lady Fleming) (1502-1562), courtisane écossaise
• Jane Stuart (en) (c. 1654-1742), Quaker anglaise
• Jane Stuart (en) (1812-1888), peintre portraitiste américaine

Filippa Duci (or Ducci), dame de Couy (French: Philippe Desducs; 1520 – before October 1586) was an Italian-born French noblewoman, the mistress of Henry II and the mother of Diane de France.