Nostradamus and divination (1555 - ?)

The divinatory technique used by the magus

1,1 : Ritual magic of divination according to Jamblique.

1,2 : Ritual magic of divination according to Jamblique.

2,27 : The secret of prophecies of Nostradamus nearly unveiled. A divine intervention warns some in time the diffusion. Future event.

3,26 : Resurgence of the old divinatory practices in use at Greeks of the antique. Event to come.

6,100 : Magic incantations against astrologers, the silly and barbarians whom Nostradamus wished to entrench the number of his/her/its disciples. Likely reference to an ancient Egyptian malediction placed to the basis of the temple of Simbel Abou.

History in the quatrains - 16th Century

Mary 1st Tudor England's Reign (1553-1558)

6,74 : Mary the 1^st Tudor and Élisabeth, all two, daughters of Henry VIII, seeked succession to the throsne of England. After the death d'Edouard  the VIIth, Mary proclaims herself Queen in spite of the opposition of Protestants. The vast purge undertaken by this queen, that will be nicknammed later "Bloody Mary" (1553-1558).

6,47 : Meeting in Dole between the governor and the president of the Parliament of Franche-Comté for the transfer of power to Philippe of Spain. The Habsbourg provoke the decline of Brussels at the expense of the city of Malînes (1556).

The conquest of Rome by the duke of Albe (1557)

4,98 : Conquest of the city of Rome by the duke D'Albe confronted by the Troops of the captain De Guise (1557). A first serious economical crisis hit Spain and France. An unprecedented famine results.

6,62 : The invasion of the Papal States by the Habsbourg in 1556. The order of troops granted to the duke D'Albe. The intervention of France in the conflict and the entrusted mission to the duke of Guise. The confrontation without glory darkens the reputation of the two great Generals.

7,29 : The French troops of the duke De Guise confront the duke of Albe in Italy (1556-1557). The reluctance of this later one to fight the pontifical troops. The defeat of the duke of Guise.

9,88 : François De Guise, coming from Italy, reconquers Calais, thanks to a meticulous military operation, January 6, 1558.

Diane De Poitiers, mistress of king Henri II

7,2 : Diane De Poitiers, notorious mistress of the Henri king II of France. The colors of beautiful Diane - the black and the white - proudly worn by the monarch. The death of the celebrated concubine, April 25 1566. The second  war of Religion (1567-1568).

4,42 : The role of Switzerland and Savoy in the signature Cateau-Cambresis treaty (1559) where France yielded the conquests acquired during thirty years of war.

8,49 : The heavy consequences of the Cateau-Cambresis treaty (1559) for France. The death of the pope Paul IV, during that very year. The empire of Habsbourg compromised by the disappearance of Charles Quint.

4,93 : The birth of Henri of Navarre (1553), future king of France Henri IV. The dreams of the queen Catherine of Medicis about him make her fear the worse for the life of her husband, Henri II. Henri of Navarre destined to become a noticed monarch.

6,10 : The disastrous tournament where Henri II of France lost his life (1559). The worn colors by the king and by its friends the dukes of Ferrare, De Guise and de Nemours. The end of the monarch prelude and pretext to the terrible wars of Religion that bloodied the country between 1562 and 1598.

1,35 : Death of the king of  France Henri II (1559)
 

10,39 : Mentally and physically weak, François II was dominated by the uncles of his wife, François of Lorraine, duke de Guise, and the cardinal Charles of Lorraine. The death of François II marked the end of the ascension of the De Guises into the Court.

10,84 : At the death of François II, in 1560, Mary Stuart return in Scotland to the great pleasure of her subjects. Her remariage, in 1565, with her cousin, the Scottish Catholic Lord Darnley.

4,16 : Geneva, place by excellence for Protestants during the XVlth Century. The appartenance of the city to Savoy until the beginning of the XVllth Century, and the acquisition of its freedom from that regime.

4,74 : The proliferation of the calvinism in France. The first Religion war and its conclusion (1562). The Aquitaine pays dearly to be the looser of this first affrontement.

9,40 : Massacres of Flamands close to St-Quentin, after mutinerie, to the North of the border, in 1566, or well after a vague religious iconoclasm, in France, in 1561.

5,31 : Pierre de Ronsard and his big popularity to the XVlth Century. His évincement by way of poet from the Court under Henri III. The forgetness of his work until the XIXth  Century.

6,8 : Ronsard, poet to the France Court under the reigns of Henri II, of François II and of Charles IX. His decline Under Henri III and the total forgetfulness to which he was confined. The tragic end of his colleagues of the same literary school.

4,88 : Antoine of Bourbon betrays his reformists co-religious peers because of a tempting offer from the Vatican that would have granted him the kingdom Of Sardaigne. Catherine of Medicis, in front of his submission, named the said person lieutenant General of the kingdom. The end of the controversed character during the Siege of Rouen (November 19th, 1562).

6,60 : Antoine of Bourbon, lieutenant general of the kingdom of France (1561). The Siege of Rouen and the brutal end of the character. Rouen and LaRochelle, Protestant dominated cities, see Brittain interpose itself to counter the growth of calvinism.

4,76 : The first war of Religion (1562). Its ravagings in the southwest of the France. The rival factions in presence and the massacre of Cahors (19 November 1561).

7,1 : France understands the strategic importance of Provence at the very beginning of the wars of Religion. The body of a Protestant, Richard, sieur of Mauvans, hung and exhibed on the public place of d'Aix. The processes ordered by the king, in this province, between 1560 and 1564.

8,31 : The misfortunes of the marquis of Pescara in Italie. His reputation of  prestigious warrior tainted by the dark acts of the duke of d'Albe (1566). His nomination as vice-king of Sicile by the emperor some years later.

6,83 : The d'Albe duke dispatched in the Low Lands (1566} in order to subdue the Protestants. Aduled by the crowd when they enter in Belgium, the imperial troops later generates contempt. The numerous executions raise the anger of the population.

8,1 : The third war of Religion brings the Royals troops at the doors of Bearn. The Catholics are defeated by the survivors of Jarnac, then led  by Montgomery (1569).

9,63 : Coligny makes a huge campaign in the Languedoc after the death of Condé in Jarnac in 1569. The wars of  religion succede one another after this third war of religion.

10,5 : The alliances between Albi and Castres after the death of Condé at Jarnac in March 1569, a huge campaign in the Languedoc in October 1570, after a new Religious peace attempt August 20, at St-Germain.

9,48 : The tidal wave that devastated the harbor of Hague and the whole of Holland, immersing all the Jutland country up on November 1570, taking thousands to their death. The reconstruction, during winter and the following spring, in the extreme conditions brought by the destruction of all the dykes, dams of the country.

3,64: The naval battle of Lepanto of October 7, 1571 and the hiden goals of Western Allies.

6,75 : The imposing career of Don Juan of Autriche, natural son of emperor Charles Quint. The navale victory of Lepanto over the Moslem Turks. His nomination as general governor to the Low-Lands ("Holland"?). The end of this huge character in 1578.

7,26: The seven admirals vessels that counted the navy of the Holy Ligue, at the time of the battle of Lépanto (1571). Don Juan D'Autriche injured in the fight and two of the vessels heavily damaged.
 
 

The wedding of Marguerite of Valois (1572)

7,9: The marriage of Marguerite of Valois to Henri of Navarre. Characterized infidelity of the two spouses. Secret loves of the beautiful Margot with duke Henri de Guise, principal enemy of the Navarrois at the time of the wars of Religion.
 
 

10,19 The history of Marguerite of Valois from very shy she was to become proud princess near of the queen at the Court, before becoming queen in her turn.

2,41 : The supernova of 1572, the death of the pope Pius V and the massacre of the Saint-Barthélemy, August 24th of this same Year.

4,47 : France Charles IX, the Religion wars and the massacre Saint-Barthélemy (August 24 1572). The Protestant leaders eliminated everywhere throughout the country.

5,97 : The sad end of Charles IX of France and the révocation the Edict of Saint-German-in-Laye. The massacre of the Saint Barthelemy provokes deep remorses to the king (1572-1574).

7,16 : The peace of Saint-German (1570) puts a term to the third war of Religion. The truce imposes specific limits around Paris to the Protestants. The three Protestant leaders - Condé, Navarre & Coligny - submit. Catherine of Médicis prepares the Saint-Barthélemy (24 August 1572).

9,81 : The trick of the king in the organization of the massacre of the St-Barthélemy, August 24 1572.

The assassination of the admiral of Coligny (1572)

4,10: The assassination of the Coligny admiral (24 August l572) and the renunciation of d'Henri of Navarre (future Henri IV of France). The long interval between his anointing and the death of his predecessor.

3,16: Gabriel of Montgomery, unvoluntarily responsible for the fate of the French king Henri II. His execution in 1574.

8,58 : The military career of Gabriel, count of Montgomery. His switch of alliegeance to the British Crown. The conflict between Henri III and his Alençon brother, eloquent syrnbole Division of the France at the time of the first war of Religion. The capture of Montgomery, May 27, 1574.

The accession of Henri III to the throsne of France (1574)

4,87: Henri III succeeds to his brother Charles IX on the Throsne of France (1574). The erudition of the monarch and his different manner of driving the fate of the State. The role of his in-laws (de Guise)  in the assassination of Coligny, and in the massacre of the Saint-Barthelemy.

6,94 : The curious vestimentary habits in the court of Henri III. The fashionable intrigue games in the entourage of the king. The defeat of invincible Spanish Armada September 15, 1588, a year before the assassination last of the Valois.

10,34 : Henri II, and his brother in-law future Henri III who betrays France by allying with Spain. Due to this alliance, he wins the St-Quentin battle on the French, in 1557. The war stops with the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis.

9,97 : Battle of the three kings, August 4 1578, that will see the confrontation of D'Alger Bey and Al-Malik Abd, Morocco, which allies with the king of Portugal. The three kings will confront each other at Bekir El Ksar. Portugal is overcome and the battle to death will continue between the two Moslem factions, until the victory of the Moroccans, that will have previously inflicted a first time breach in the Algerian forces.

3,98 : The wars of Religion under Henri III. The open fight between the king and his brother François. Several France cities change masters. The death of François in 1584.

4,72 : The death of the duke of Anjou, in 1584, provoke a new war of Religion as Henri of Navarre, a Protestant, becomes the legitimate successor to the throsne of France.

7,11 : The disgraceful character of the last one of the sons of Catherine Of Medicis (d'Alençon Hercule). The marriage project of this unworthy offspring to Élisabeth 1st of d'Angleterre compromised by its fiasco in the Low-Lands (Holland) (1583).

10,52 : Hercule, the son of Catherine of Médicis, what she will look for to case him by an advantageous marriage on the side of England on account of the fact that Elizabeth 1st had not had taken a spouse yet. January 17 1583, he commits nevertheless a capital  error while investing the cities of Gand, of Bruges and Anvers. Learning his ruin, from England, Élisabeth will let him know her Final refusal to her great relief.

10,45 : Evocation of the Edict of Nemours in 1585, when the king of Navarre must yield to Catherine of Médicis, and evocation of the renewal of the treaty of Cambrai by the Treaty of Cateau Cambresis.

The assassination of duke Henri De Guise and of his brother the cardinal (1588)

1,85 : Henri III, Catherine of Medicis, the assassination of De Guises (1588) or Henri III and the death of its brothers François II and Charles IX.

2,55 : France's Henri III, Catherine De Médicis and the political assassination of the De Guise (1588).

3,51: The plot aiming the assassination of the leader of Ligue, Henri de Guise, after its continuous pressures on Henri III to refuse to designate Savoie Henri of Navarre as apparent heir to the throsne (1588).

3,55: The assassination of duke De Guises, December 23 1588, at the hands of the faithful Gascons of the guard of the king Henri III. Interrogation remains as to who of Henri III or of his mother Catherine of Médicis had ordered this crime.

4,60 The assassinations of duke De Guise, of his brother the cardinal, and of Henri III of France (1588-1589). The. role played by Catherine of Medicis in the planning of the two first ones.

5,9: The assassination of duke Henri De guise by France Henri III, in December 1588. The disappearance of the arch of Glanum, an antiquity that celebrated Saint-Rémy-of-Provence, at the end of the XVIth Century.

8,18 : The reign of the three sons of Catherine of Medicis. The unlimited ambition of de Guise provokes the wars of  Religion, during the second half of the XVlth  century. The role of the Florentine women in the assassination of De Guise, in December 1588.

9,86 : The Day of the Barricades of May 12, 1588, preceded by the troops Henri De Guise that were returning to Blois with him and the elimination of De Guise, followed by the subsequent assassination of Henri III, and then the triumph of Henri IV and of his family with his glorious entry in Paris closed.

8,25 : The love liaison of Marguerite of Valois with the duke Henri de Savoie ignites the jealousy of the future Henri III. The assassination of the duke and of his brother the cardinal ordered by the king, a fine day of the end of December 1588.

1,78: Henri III of France and his sister Marguerite (1574-1589).

5,12 : Invasion of the ideas of Luther and of Calvin in Germany, in Geneva, then in France at the beginning of the second half of the XVI th Century. The role of d'Augsbourg cities and of Geneva in the diffusion of the Reformation.

1,79 : The religion wars in France (1562-1588).

4,40 : The Reformation in France and the wars of Religion (1562-1598). The Protestant slaughtered in the name of politics.

4,44 : The wars of Religion in France. The relents of the Saint-Barthélemy (24 August 1572) in the Southwest of the country and in the South. The city of Bordeaux harshly hit.

4,79 : The wars of Religion at the end of the XVI' Century. Navarre and Bigorre undergo some the biggest consequences. The famine that in résulted in 1598 and the unprecedented inflation which hit the entire country of France.

5,89 : The wars of Religion in France. The expansion of the calvinisme in Hungary, in Bohemia and in Navarre. Events of the second half of the XVI th century.

5,96 : The wars of Religion in France (1562-1598). The poet Ronsard nicknammed rose of the world. The arrival of Henri IV in the political scene, first monarch of the dynasty of Bourbons.

6,29 : The reigns of François II and Charles IX of France, darkened by the first war of Religion. The imposing presence of their mother in the matters of the kingdom. Massacre of the Saint-Barthelemy (1572).

4,18 : The persecutions undertaken against of the astronomers towards the end of the second half of the XVIth century and beginning of the XVIIth. The forerunners, Copernic, of Cusa, Bruno and Galilée, followed by the Inquisition.

4,25 : The discovery of the l'astrophysics in the XVI^thcentury, big factor responsible for the materialism and the notorious loss of  fervor towards the Catholic religion.

10,2 : The defeat that experienced the invincible Armada September 15, 1588.

The assassination of Henri III by Jacques Clément and the extinction of the dynastie of the Valois (1589)

1,10 : Extinction of the dynasty of the Valois (1589).

2,9 : France Henri III, pacificator between the years 1576-1584. His assassination (1589) under the hands of the monk Jacques Clément.

6,11 : The extinction of the dynasty of the Valois. The fight for power between Henri III and his brother, the duke of Alençon. The wars of Religion that marked France during the course of the reigns of the last elements of the family.

6,63 : The death of the Henri II king of  France and the regency exercised by Catherine of Medicis under the successive reigns of François II and of Charles IX. The seven years mourning that she imposed herself after the disappearance of Henri (1559-1566).

10,18 : Two great ones disappear: Catherine of Medicis and King Henri III. She will die therefore January 5 1589. Henri III was assassinated few months later, August 2, leaving the throsne to Henri that would become king Henri I of Navarre (Henri IV), of which the son, was the Duke of Vendôme. Three weeks later, in Rome, Sixte Quint died, and the Roman Urban VII then took his place, but did not live over 13 days of his pontificat. Then came the Milanese Gregoire XIV whom the magus calls son of Jupiter because of his forcefulness to defend the Church (he raised and led an army against France).

1,5 : The wars of  religion in France (1590) or event to come (persécutions in Carcassonne).

3,85 : The wars of  religion in Carcassonne. The Capture of the City by the Ligue in July 1590. The duke Anne de Joyeuse and his death at the battle of Coutras (1587).

8,67 : The French cities of Paris and of divided Carcassonne faced with the accession of Henri of Navarre to the crown of France (1588-1590). The intervention of Spanish armies of the duke of Parme (Alexandre Famèse) to liberate Paris, July 1590. His  triumphant entry in Paris, October 7, and the inconditionnal support of the main Italian families in his enterprise.

1,99 : Henri IV and the difficult beginnings of his reign (1589-1590)

5,41 : The unforeseen advent of d'Henri IV on the throsne of France. The antique blood of the noble family of Bourbons. The care that brought the new monarch into improvement of the finances of the State in the beginning of the XVII^th century.

6,23 : The France Catholics protest the d'Henri couronnement IV. The city of Paris, supported by the Spain, denies him its rights to the throsne. The king constrained to besiege the capitale (1590) and the agonies then endured by the population.

6,96 : The initial refusal of Paris to accept Henri of Navarre. The besieged City by the troops of the monarch. The Spaniards called to the rescue of the resistants. The numerous victims in the starving city (1590-1591).

7,17 : The deep respect of Henri IV for his subjects, shown during of the siege of Paris (1590). The erudition of the monarch. Sully and someone named Laffemas at the most important ministries, in 1595. Sully is strongly criticized after the imposition of The "pancarte".

7,25 : The unending wars endured by France during the XVI^th Century. The country then has more soldiers than farmers and craftsmen together. The technical bankruptcy of the state at the advent of Henri IV.

10,41 : Sacre of Henri IV (1594). Cahors corresponds to the site of an important one D'Henri victory of Navarre on the Catholics (29 May 1580). Couronnement of IV d'Henri (1594), and joy demonstrations in the regions that him are obtained, here to Caussade and Villefranche, to the northeast, Past Caylus, Villefranche of Rouergue.

8,69 : The election to the papacy of Grégoire XIV in front of an older rival, December 5, 1590. The accession of the evinced cardinal on the throsne of St-Peter less than a year later. The advent two months later, of Clementus VIII.

9,59 : Probable intervention of Louise of Lorraine in the attribution of the title of his brother named governor of Brittany in 1582, and the attempt of this later one to give to the Bretons their total independence with the help of the Spaniards in March 1592, which these would have kept the Burgundy duchy occupied since December 1588 in exchange for their collaboration if the entreprise had succeeded.

2,12 : Henri IV, the great Monarch of the French. The expulsion of Jesuits from France (1595) and religious liberty granted during the course of his reign.

3,88 : The refusal of Marseille to recognize Henri IV as the king of France. Casaulx, leader of the city, betrays his fellow citizens by favoring a Spanish invasion. The end of the felon, February 17, 1596.

1,77 : The corsair Francis Drake and Gibraltar, his death (1596).

7,12 : Henri IV and his final solution to the Religion wars. The big pardon granted to all the proponents at the Promulgation of the Edict of Nantes (13 April 1598).

10,26 : The succession of Henri III to Henri IV. The Edict of Nantes and the defeats of the duke of Mercoeur in Brittany that brought the decision to capitulate by the Ligue and the capture of d'Amiens upon their return, and the one to negotiate Spain to Vervins May 2 1598.

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4,57 : Marguerite of Valois, the unfaithful spouse of d'Henri IV of France. The cancellation of his marriage in 1599. The king reacts harshly against the manuscript of the jesuits by ordering the expulsion of the community from the kingdom.

9,87 : By putting his wife, the Queen Margot, in hermitage, the king got divorce from Clément VIII, and is an example of his influence on the religion. He would then go on and marry Mary of Medicis, December 16, 1600.

10,17 : Marguerite of Valois, that had married Henri IV in 1572, at the time of the massacre of the St-Bathelemy, was in discord with him. And many adulteries ended up dividing the couple. She was put away, by him, as early as 1587, to the Château of Usson in Auvergne and was disinherited by the queen-mother. And after the death of Catherine of Médicis, his marriage was canceled (forclos) and then Henri IV married Mary de Medicis.

7,20 : Political entreprises by the Vatican, between april 1599 & april 1600, to convince Henri IV to marry the Catholic Marie de Médicis. The main part played by the ardinal de Gondi in the negociations.

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7,24 : The main house of Lorraine, holder of the title of of the Bridge marquisat and duchys of Bar and Savoy. The  members of the family illustrated themselves during of the XVIth Century. Its decline towards the XVIIe.

England, maritim superpower during 300 years

10,100 : To The big anoyment of the Portugueses, England has a great empire during over three hundred years, sending its effectives in its colonies everywhere all over the world.