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Elizabeth SALE
(Origins of the Sale name is the French DeSale/s)
The Sale surname originates with the French name: "de la Sale." Elizabeth Sale [Parents] was born on 8 Jun 1590 in Chesham,Buckinghamshire,England. She was the daughter of Edward SALE born: 4 APR 1563 Chesham,Bucks,England, and Chesham,Bucks,England Elizabeth GIFFORD born: 1567 Chesham,Bucks,England
She died on 22 Feb 1633/1634 in Chesham,Buckinghamshire,England. She married William Preston born: 23 January 1590, Giggleswick,Yorkshire,England Giggleswick,Yorkshire,England. The marriage date was 11 OCT 1613 in Chesham,Buckinghamshire,England.

They had the following children:

Francis de Sales was born of a noble family in 1567 in the Savoy region of what is now France. As the first son of an aristocratic family, he went off for education in Paris and Padua. These two centers of learning were instrumental in the development of the French and Italian enlightenment. The European intellectual life of the time was vibrant. Galileo, Kepler, Shakespeare, Donne, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Titian, Caravaggio, El Greco, Rubens, and Monteverdi were all contemporaries of Francis de Sales.

Francis de Sales encountered turbulent times for Christianity. Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of church in Wittenburg, Germany on October 31, 1517. In 1519, Ulrich Zwingli began the Swiss reformation. In 1522, Martin Luther published his German version of the Holy Bible. In 1524, Zwingli abolished the Catholic mass in Zurich. In 1532, John Calvin began the reformation in France. In 1535, the Jesuit Order was founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. In 1536, an act of parliament declared the authority of the pope void in England. In 1544, Pope Paul III called a general council at Trent. The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola were published in 1548. The Council of Trent

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