Events from the year 1587 in
France
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.
Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...
–
Henry III
Events
* 20 October –
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
and Royalist forces clashed at the
Battle of Coutras
The Battle of Coutras, fought on 20 October 1587, was a major engagement in the French Religious Wars between a Huguenot (Protestant) army under Henry of Navarre (the future Henry IV) and a royalist army led by Anne, Duke of Joyeuse. Henry of Na ...
. Hugeunots under
Henry of Navarre
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...
won the battle.
* 26 October – Royalist forces commanded by
Henry I, Duke of Guise won the
Battle of Vimory
The Battle of Vimory, occurred on 26 October 1587 between the French royal (Catholic) forces of King Henry III of France commanded by Henry of Guise and German and Swiss mercenaries commanded by Fabien I, Burgrave of Dohna and William-Robert de l ...
.
Full dates missing
* Construction of
Couvent des Feuillants
The royal monastery of Saint-Bernard, better known as the Couvent des Feuillants or Les Feuillants Convent, was a Feuillant nunnery or convent in Paris, behind what is now numbers 229—235 rue Saint-Honoré, near its corner with rue de Castigli ...
was started.
*
Guillaume Du Bartas was sent on a diplomatic mission to
Scotland
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.
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Collège de France
The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...
instituted Arabic lessons, with
Arnoult de Lisle being the first professor of the chair of Arabic.
Births
* 30 April –
Éléonore de Bourbon
Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé (30 April 1587 – 20 January 1619) was the daughter of Henri I de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte Catherine de la Tremoille. Éléonore's father was the first cousin of King Henry IV of France. She was a ...
, French princess (died 1619)
* 17 November –
Charles Lallemant
Charles Lallemant (or Lalemant), (November 17, 1587 – November 18, 1674) was a French Jesuit. He was born in Paris in 1587 and later became the first Superior of the Jesuit Missions amongst the Huron in Canada. His letter to his brother, ...
, French Jesuit (died 1674)
Full dates missing
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Catherine de Sainte-Maure, French courtier (died 1648)
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Didier Palleti, French bishop (died 1658)
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Isaac de Razilly
Isaac de Razilly (1587 – 1635) was a member of the French nobility appointed a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem at the age of 18. He was born at the Château d'Oiseaumelle in the Province of Touraine, France. A member of the French ...
, French noble (died 1635)
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Marin Boucher, French pioneer of North America (died 1671)
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Robert Giffard de Moncel, French surgeon (died 1668)
Deaths
* 23 March –
Charles de Rambouillet, French cardinal (born 1530)
* 11 May –
Élie Vinet
Élie Vinet (1509–1587) was a French Renaissance humanist, known as a classical scholar, translator and antiquary.
Life
Vinet was born at Vinets, in the commune of Saint Médard, near Barbezieux in what is now Charente. Brought up at Barbezieux ...
, French humanist (born 1509)
* 24 May –
Diana of Foix
Charlotte Diane de Foix-Candale (after 1540 – 24 May 1587) became the Comtesse of Gurson (in France) after her marriage in 1579 with Louis de Foix, who fell in the Battle of Montraveau on 29 July 1587. Michel de Montaigne dedicated the twenty ...
(birth year unknown)
* 20 October –
Anne de Joyeuse, French noble and commander (born 1560)
* 30 October –
Charles de Vaudémont, French cardinal (born 1561)
Full dates missing
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Madeleine Des Roches
Madeleine Des Roches (née Madeleine Neveu) (c. 1520 – November 1587) was a French writer of the Renaissance. She was the mother of Catherine Fradonnet, called Catherine Des Roches (December 1542 - November 1587), to whom she taught poetry, lite ...
, French writer (born 1520)
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Philibert du Croc, French diplomat (born 1515)
See also
References
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1580s in France