Catherine de Medici, married king Henry II of France and, after his death in 1559, reigned as regent in France.

First ( 1559 ) he married Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( 29 August 1540 – 8 March 1578 ).

In 1579, Ieyasu's wife, and his eldest son, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, were accused by Nobunaga of conspiring with Takeda Katsuyori to assassinate Nobunaga, whose daughter Tokuhime ( 1559 – 1636 ) was married to Nobuyasu.

# Anastasia ( 14 March 1478, Ansbach – 4 July 1534, Ilmenau ), married Count William IV of Henneberg-Schleusingen ( 1478 – 1559 )

His son Ercole II married Renée of France, daughter of Louis XII of France ; he too embellished Ferrara during his reign ( 1534 – 1559 ).

Alfonso and Lucrezia Borgia's son Ercole d ' Este II ( 1508 – 1559 ) married Renée of France, daughter of Louis XII of France.

* Lady Frances Brandon ( 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559 ), who married Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, and was the mother of Lady Jane Grey

The original character is often said to have been based on one Thomas Jones ( c. 1530-1609 ) who, according to the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, was pardoned for unspecified offences in 1559, wrote poetry, was a steward who " often had recourse to the law ", and married the widow of Thomas Rhys Williams of Ystrad-ffin.

In 1559, sickly fifteen-year-old Francis II of France ( married to the young Mary, Queen of Scots ) succeeded to the throne ; Mary's uncles François, Duc de Guise, and Charles de Guise may have held much of the true power in this period, and did much to persecute the French Protestants and reduce the power of the Bourbon and Condé princes.

His father, William Breton, a London merchant who had made a considerable fortune, died in 1559, and the widow ( née Elizabeth Bacon ) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority.

In February 1535 — 1536 new style — it passed to France, during a full-scale French invasion of Savoy, but was restored to Duke Philibert Emmanuel in 1559, when he married Henri II's sister Marguerite.

She married him on August 14, 1559.

In late 1559 or early 1560 Puttenham married Elizabeth, Lady Windsor ( 1520 – 1588 ), the daughter and coheir of Peter Cowdray of Herriard, Hampshire.

# Lady Frances Brandon ( 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559 ); she married Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset and was the mother of Lady Jane Grey

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

The first documented instance of a princess who wore a white wedding gown for a royal wedding ceremony is that of Philippa of England, who wore a tunic with a cloak in white silk bordered with grey squirrel and ermine ) in 1406 .; Mary, Queen of Scots, wore a white wedding gown in 1559 when she married her first husband, Francis Dauphin of France because it was her favorite color, although white was then the color of mourning for French Queens.

By Christian II of Denmark ( 1 July 1481 – 25 January 1559 ; married in 1514 )

# Anna ( 21 September 1541 – 12 February 1616 ), married on 16 June 1559 to Count Albert of Nassau-Weilburg

# Elisabeth ( 25 September 1542 – 18 November 1603 ), married 16 June 1559 to Count Conrad of Solms-Braunfels

As part of the peace terms, Emmanuel Philibert married Marguerite d ’ Angoulême, younger sister of King Henry II of France, in 1559.

It is believed that he married, on June 8, 1575, at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, Susannah ( née Thorne ), herself recorded as having been born on March 5, 1559 / 60 in Northamptonshire, and baptised at Yardley Hastings, the daughter of Thomas Thorne and Mary Purefoy.

Elisabeth married Philip II of Spain (" Philip the Catholic "), son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal in 1559.

She was married at the age of 11 to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine on 19 January 1559.

First, he was married on 16 June 1559 with Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg ( ca.

He was the third son of Sir Bernard Grenville ( 1559 – 1636 ), and a grandson of the famous seaman, Sir Richard Grenville.

The third Earldom of Hertford was created in 1559 for Edward Seymour, who was simultaneously created Baron Beauchamp of Hache.

Adrian Le Roy & Robert Ballard 1556 ; 4 in the second édition of 1559 ; 3 in the third édition of 1569 ; 4 in the fourth édition of 1578

Adrian Le Roy & Robert Ballard, Paris 1556 ; 1557 ( second édition ); 1 in the third édition of 1559 ; 1572 ( fourth édition ); 1573 ( fifth édition ); 1575 ( sixth édition )

Calvin, in the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion ( 1536 ), did the same, and it was not till the third edition ( 1559 ) and the Genevan Catechism that he fully presented the three offices.

The council was reconvened by Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 65 ) for the last time, meeting from 18 January 1562, and continued until its final adjournment on 4 December 1563.

At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

This time, on 24 October 1559, the Scottish nobility formally deposed Mary of Guise from the regency.

In 1559 he undertook another journey in the interest of the Huguenots, this time to Heidelberg.

Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

From the time of the Elizabethan Settlement in 1559 the services allowed for a certain variety of theological interpretation.

Later, in his Apology ( 1580 ), William stated that his resolve to oppose the King's policies had originated in June 1559, when, during a hunting trip to the Bois de Vincennes together with the duke of Alva and King Henry II of France, to whom both had been sent as hostages to ensure the proper fulfilment of the conditions of the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis following the Hispano-French war, the latter two had openly discussed a secret understanding between Philip and Henry which aimed at the extermination of the Protestants in both France and the Netherlands ; William at that time had kept silent, but had decided for himself that he would not allow the slaughter of so many innocent subjects.

It was not until 1559 and the Last Feud between the King of Denmark and the Ditmarsians that the free peasants were forced to give up their political and religious autonomy by the successful invasion commanded by Count Johan Rantzau from Steinburg, one of the best strategists of the time.

Little is known of his time at Trinity – he certainly studied rhetoric and dialectics under a program instituted in 1559, but although he is considered to have had all the intelligence to be a good student little is known of his academic achievements there.

Isaac Casaubon ( 18 February 1559, Geneva – 1 July 1614, London ) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.

He died while the accusation was still under investigation, by which time he had been elected ( in 1559 ) Member of Parliament for Kent.

Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time.

He was thus enabled to go to Italy to study the Vatican text of Plutarch, on the translation of whose Lives ( 1559 – 1565 ) he had been some time engaged.

At that time, it was a center of Protestant Reformation culture and education, following the founding of a school of Wojciech Calissius ( 1559 ).

Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 ( at the same time as the English King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries ) and in his native French in 1541, with the definitive editions appearing in 1559 ( Latin ) and in 1560 ( French ).

Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington wrote in his History of the House of Seytoune to the Year 1559, that Sir William Seton, "... was the " First creatit and made Lord of Parliament in Scotland, and he and his posteritie to have ane voit yairin and be callit Lords " by King Robert II, where there were no Lords of Parliament before that time.

* Isaac Casaubon ( 1559 – 1614 ), classical scholar and philologist, spent time in the town.

Nevertheless, being the only Bishop prepared to officiate at her coronation on 15 January 1559 in Westminster Abbey, he did so, again ignored her instructions not to elevate the host at the coronation mass which followed the crowning, again had the Queen walk out on him — this time from her own coronation service — and he was rewarded for his services by being deprived of his see later the same year ( 1559 ) very shortly before he died.

Transylvania had for a short time ( 1559 – 1571 ) enjoyed full religious liberty under an anti-Trinitarian prince, John Sigismund.

It is notable that Crowley's 1559 continuation of the Lanquet-Cooper chronicle looks back on this period — Somerset's fall, then Dudley's, and the accession of Mary — as precisely a time of judgement that befell England due to the failings principally of the secular leaders such as Somerset.

The royal tomb was destroyed, along with the other religious houses of Perth, at the time of the Scottish Reformation in 1559.

" On 25 January, 1559, Cawood's name was conjoined with Jugge's in the printing of An Acte whereby certayne offences be made treason, and from that time they continued jointly to print the State papers.

He retired to the continent before May 1559, and from that time until his death was an active participant in all schemes for the restoration of Roman Catholicism.