conseil privé due to lacking the intelligence for matters of state. Saint-Germain-en-Laye As a mechanism to secure the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Catherine de Medici desired to establish a marriage between her daughter Marguerite de Valois and the Protestant King of Navarre. This was theologically difficult as such a marriage would require Papal blessing, due to involving a Protestant and Catholic. It proved impossible for the crown to acquire such dispensation. As a result it was decided to do it on the authority of the king. To ensure this went over smoothly in the French church, pressure was applied to Cardinals Bourbon, Lorraine, Guise and Sens. All of them were eventually pressured into consenting. Reign of Henri III He crowned Henry III of France at Reims on 13 February 1575. In early 1576, the Italian ambassador Morosini reported that Cardinal Guise had joined a faction of nobles, determined to resist any attempts to bring the fifth war of religion to a close without a total victory. Morosini also suggested the Duke of Guise, Nevers and Nemours as being party to this plot. Cardinal Guise again found himself in the war faction in 1577, at the outbreak of the sixth war of religion, aimed at delivering a harsher peace than that of the Peace of Monsieur, Cardinal Guise, the duke of Guise, Charles, Duke of Mayenne and Nevers all advocated for making war on the Protestants, despite the Estates General having refused to finance the effort. He died in 1578. See also House of Guise References Sources External links Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Louis I de Guise 1527 births 1578 deaths 16th-century French cardinals French untitled nobility Bishops of Albi Archbishops of Sens Bishops of Troyes Bishops of Metz Abbots of Melrose