Francis i Sentence Examples

Leo vacillated between the powerful candidates for the succession, allowing it to appear at first that he favoured Francis I.

In October 1533 he was entrusted with the unmannerly task of intimating to Clement VII., while he was the guest of Francis I.

He was almost as bitter against Wyatt and Mason, whom he denounced as a "papist," and the violence of his conduct led Francis I.

Both monarchs proceeded on the same lines; but Francis I.

In 1514 she accompanied Mary Tudor to France on the marriage of the princess to Louis XII., remained there after the king's death, and became one of the women in waiting to Queen Claude, wife of Francis I.

In 1520 he was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold; in 1529 and 1530 he went to France and Italy as ambassador to Francis I.

He incurred much hostility, but was protected by Francis I.

However, by his birth, his abilities and his connexions alike he was marked out for a high position, and after the death of his wife in February 1812 he was appointed ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Vienna, where he signed the treaty of TOplitz between Great Britain and Austria in October 1813; and accompanying the emperor Francis I.

Elbeuf had been commissioned by Francis I.

She was born at Angouleme on the 11th of April 1492, and was two years older than her brother Francis I.

He was a man of exemplary life and a friend of Erasmus and the humanists, besides being a persona grata at the court of Louise of Savoy and Francis I.

To the difficulties caused by disaster, depopulation and maladministration there was added the danger of foreign invasion when war broke out in Europe between Francis I.

It was raised to the rank of a duchy in 1528 by Francis I.

In 1523 Clement VII., having appointed him archbishop of Brindisi and Oria, sent him as nuncio to the court of Francis I.

The county assemblies instantly protested against this illegal act, and Francis I.

The famous salt-cellar (saliera) of Benvenuto Cellini, executed in 1539-43 for Francis I.

He was a robust man, and inherited his father's love of violent exercise; but his character was weak and his intelligence mediocre, and he had none of the superficial and brilliant gifts of Francis I.

He was accused of undermining the foundations of philosophy and religion, and the matter was brought before the parlement of Paris, and finally before Francis I.

Here he translated Theagene et Chariclee from Heliodorus (1547 fol.), for which he was rewarded by Francis I.

A statue of Peter the Great was set up near the palace in 1883, and one of Francis I.

In 1543-1544 he commanded the fleet which Suleiman sent to the coast of Provence to support Francis I.

It was her uncle, Pope Clement VII., who arranged the marriage with Francis I.

Pierre Eyquem, Montaigne's father, had been engaged in commerce (a herring-merchant Scaliger calls him, and his grandfather Ramon had certainly followed that trade), had filled many municipal offices in Bordeaux, and had served under Francis I.

The old ducal palace, begun by Duke Francis I.

Offers, flattering but equally vague, were made from France, on the part of the bishop of Bayeux, and even of Francis I.

It was here that the emperor Francis I.

It begins with the foundation of the Royal Readers by Francis I.

In France it was mainly with a view to promoting the study of Greek that the corporation of Royal Readers was founded by Francis I.

The Order of Leopold, for civil and military service, was founded in 1808 by the emperor Francis I.

Margherita to Portofino is the suppressed monastery of Cervara, in which Francis I.

In the partial settlement which followed the battle of Ravenna, Massimiliano Sforza, a protege of the emperor, was restored to the throne of Milan, and held it by the help of the .Swiss till 1515, when Francis I.

There is also another ducal residence, a fine park and a monument of the grand duke, Frederick Francis I.

On the betrayal of this conspiracy Clement made a fresh submission to the emperor, only to follow this, a year later, by the Holy League of Cognac with Francis I.

When Maximilian died in January 1519 his throne was competed for by his grandson Charles, king of Spain, and by Francis I.

In April 1521 Charles invested his brother Ferdinand, afterwards -tue emperor Ferdinand I., with the Austrian archduchies, and soon afterwards he left Germany to renew his long struggle with Francis I.

It was an alliance between the enemies of the house of Habsburg, and on this side it gained the support of the duke of Bavaria and treated with Francis I.

With a new army he marched against the French, but suddenly in September 544 he concluded the treaty of Crpy with Francis I.

The empire of Austria, as the official designation of the territories ruled by the Habsburg monarchy, dates back only to 1804, when Francis II., the last of the Holy Roman emperors, proclaimed himself emperor of Austria as Francis I.

The principality was confiscated by King Francis I.

But the renewed antagonism between England and France which followed the accession of Francis I.

On the support of the laity Henry relied to abolish papal jurisdiction and reduce clerical privilege and property in England; and by a close alliance with Francis I.

It is the prose epic of feudalism, and its romantic spirit, its high ideals, its fantastic gallantry, its ingenious adventures, its mechanism of symbolic wonders, and its flowing style have entranced readers of such various types as Francis I.

Immediately afterwards he was sent over to Marseilles, where an interview between the pope and Francis I.

The alliance concluded by him with France reveals him at once as rising superior to the narrow prejudices of his race and faith, which rejected with scorn any union with the unbeliever, and as gifted with sufficient political insight to appreciate the advantage of combining with Francis I.

Gradually Warham and Fox retired from the government; the occasion of Fox's resignation of the privy seal was Wolsey's ill-advised attempt to drive Francis I.

As early as the 12th century the Savonese built themselves a sufficient harbour; but in the 16th century the Genoese, fearing that Francis I.

He was a man of keen intelligence and cultivated mind, and deserves as much as Francis I.

In the general distribution of parts these monumental buildings express the peculiar conditions which French society assumed under the influence of Francis I.

In 1525 Henry was taken prisoner at the battle of Pavia, but he contrived to escape, and in 1526 married Margaret, the sister of Francis I.

For his services in his campaigns the emperor gave him considerable possessions in the Netherlands in 1522, and Francis I.

In 1804 a merely formal change in the constitutional position of Bohemia took place when Francis I.

But this unpopular treaty was broken, and the queen had to consent to the betrothal of Claude to Francis of Angouleme, who in 1515 became king of France as Francis I.

The picture was bought afterwards by Francis I.

After his death Richard de la Pole, remaining in exile, called himself earl of Suffolk, and was flattered occasionally by Francis I.

But the foundation of Franzensbad as a watering-place really dates from 1793, when Dr Adler built here the first Kurhaus, and the place received its name after the emperor Francis I.

He was twice married - in 1819 (October 7) to the duchess Caroline, fourth daughter of the emperor Francis I.

The château was originally a huntingbox of the counts of Blois, the rebuilding of which was begun by Francis I.

It was a stronghold of Milan in her great struggle against Lodi, and is famous for the victory of Francis I.

He was with Francis I.

From Orleans Calvin went to Bourges in the autumn of 1529 to continue his studies under the brilliant Italian, Andrea Alciati (1492-1550), whom Francis I.

The conservative theology was becoming discredited, and humanists like Jacques Lefevre of Staples (Faber Stapulensis) and Gerard Roussel were favoured by the court under the influence of Margaret of Angouleme, queen of Navarre and sister of Francis I.

But being unable, in consequence of the war between Francis I.

Several historians relate that she had been the mistress of Francis I.

This had been hailed with joy by all who had been his comrades in his days of Francis I.

The territorial power of Charles V., heir to the houses of Burgundy, Austria, Castile and Aragon, which not only arrested the traditional policy of France but hemmed her Rivalry of in on every side; his pretensions to be the head of Francis I.

After having, despite so many reverses and mistakes, saved Burgundy, though not Artois nor Flanders, and joined to the crown lands the domains of the constable de Bourbon Further who had gone over to Charles V., Francis I.

Without regaining that preponderance in the Levant which had been secured after the victory of Lepanto and before the civil wars, Marseilles still took an honorable place there, confirmed by the renewal in 1604 of the capitulations of Francis I.

The marquis of Saluces, notwithstanding his gratitude to Francis I.

In 1814, on the fall of Napoleon, Cicognara was patronized by Francis I.

In this he resembled his contemporary the emperor Francis I.

The emperor's resources were, however, absorbed by his struggle for European supremacy with Francis I.

His determination to stand aloof from the great duel between Francis I.

Santes Pagninus of Lucca was at Lyons; and the trilingual college of Francis I.

The château was originally a huntingbox of the counts of Blois, the rebuilding of which was begun by Francis I.

In foreign affairs the abasement of the house of Austria remained for Henry IV., as it had been for Francis I.