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Personal data Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne 

  • He was born on September 29, 1495 in château de Montaigne.
  • Title: seigneur, de Montaigne
  • Profession: Prévôt de Bordeaux.
  • He died on June 18, 1568 in Bordeaux, he was 72 years old.
  • A child of Grimond Eyquem de Montaigne and Jeanne du Four

Household of Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne

He is married to Antoinette Lopez de Villanova.

They got married on January 15, 1529, he was 33 years old.


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Notes about Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne

Il semble avoir été anobli en 1519, à son retour des guerres d'Italie.

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Birthday September 29, 1495

  • Graaf Filips II de Schone (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1494 till 1506 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1495: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 22 » King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
    • June 1 » A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
    • July 6 » First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.

Day of marriage January 15, 1529

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1529: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 19 » Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
    • April 22 » Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780mi)) east of the Moluccas.
    • June 21 » French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
    • September 1 » The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
    • September 27 » The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
    • October 15 » The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.

Day of death June 18, 1568

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1568: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 28 » The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
    • March 23 » The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
    • May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
    • May 23 » Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
    • July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
    • September 23 » Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.


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