French nobleman born in Angers, French city in the département of Maine-et-Loire, Region of Pays de la Loire, 191 miles southwest of Paris, situated in an area known in the times pre-revolutionaries like Anjou, who was Count of Vaudemont (1470), Duke of Lorraine or Lorraine (1473) and Duke of Bar (1483-1508), and claimed sovereignty of Naples and Jerusalem, Provence and Calabria.
Son of Yolandade Anjou (1428-1483) and Frederick de Lorraine (1417-1470), Count of Vaudémont, grandson on the maternal side of Isabelle de Lorraine (1400-1453), Duchess of Lorraine, and descendant on the paternal side of John I (1346-1390), Duke of Lorraine. He succeeded as Duke of Bar (1483), after the death of his maternal grandfather René I de Anjou (1409-1480) and his mother Yolanda de Anjou, who died three years later. He married (1485) Phillipa de Guelders (1467-1547) and fathered Antoine (1489-1544), Duke of Lorraine, Claude (1496-1550), first Duke of Guise, João (1498-1550), Cardinal of Lorraine and Bishop of Metz, Louis (1500-1526), Count of Vaudémont, Francis (1506-1525), Count of Lambesc and six others who died prematurely.
He died at Fains, Eure, and his great historical achievement was to gather a group of sages in the French monastery of Saint Dié (1505), in Strasbourg, to work on geographical representations, updating the knowledge inherited from the Greeks old ones. Thus, by order of him, the first map with the word America, by Americo Vespucci, was completed (1507), which is also the first representation of the Earth as a globe, with the Latin title Cosmographiae Introductio and today known as Gomos de Waldseemüller.
The document, which dates back 15 years after the discovery of the new world (1507), is one of four maps produced by the group of German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller that still exist. The map differentiates North and South America, and mentions for the first time the existence of the Pacific Ocean. Although Christopher Columbus was the first to land on the continent, he believed he was in Asia, and it was Amerigo Vespucci who he stated that the new land that was to the west was another continent and transmitted the main information necessary for the construction of the aforementioned map.
NOTE: In the religious conflicts that shook France during the 16th century, the Guise Family was committed to defending Catholicism and the war of the three Henrys for the French throne. The family name originates from a county in the Aisne region, which was given by the crown (1506) to René II, Duke of Lorraine, and represented a family of nearly seven centuries (1047-1736).
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
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