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Brother Henry: Yet another brother, Charles (1554-1611 Duke de Mayenne, kept alive the Guise fami ambitions and the cause of Roman Catholic € tremism. He kept the armies of the League the field until 1595, trying desperately to find Catholic substitute for Henry of Navarre, w! in 1589 had become the legitimate king of Fran as Henry IV. However, Henry IV's conversion Catholicism in 1593 undercut the ideologic reason for the League's revolt, and its forces b gan to crumble.
When the royal government decided in 1576 to try once again a policy of limited toleration of Protestantism, Henri de Guise took the lead in organizing the Holy League (q.v.), an alliance of aristocrats and municipalities that was determined to prevent any toleration of Protestantism. The League received strong support from Spain. At first the object of the League was to press the government of Henry III, who had succeeded to the throne in 1574, to use force agair the Huguenots. But the League moved into op< revolt when it became apparent that the h< to the throne would be Henry of Navarre, tl Huguenot leader: Henry III had no childre and his brother Francois, Duke d'Alengon (lat Duke d'Anjou), died in 1584, before he cou marry.
RICHARD, EARL OF CORNWALL, king of the Romans: b. Winchester, England, Jan. 5, 1209; d. Berkhamstead (Great Berkhamstead), April 2, 1272. He was the son of King John. He fought against France, in the army of his brother Henry III, went on a crusade to Palestine (1240-1242), and on his return to England again assisted his brother in a war against France. In 1257, during ihe interregnum of the Holy Roman Empire, he ms chosen king of the Romans, by a bare ma-ority of the German electors.
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