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Also known as Signeur de Bourse. The du Bois name is of fuedal origin. The name is related to Count de Roussey [c 1110] whose ancestors added the title of du Bois to their patronymic. It is an old name in Neustria , before the time of Rollo . Neustria is the western part of the Frankish Merovingian Kingdom .
1536
| 1536 • Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England, is arrested on the grounds of incest, adultery, and treason. |
1558
Age: 22y
marriageBarbe De Beaufremez France ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1558 • The city of Tartu, capital of the Bishopric of Dorpat (in modern-day Estonia) surrenders to Russia. |
1560
Age: 24y
birth of childJacques Louis Wallerund Du Bois |
1564
Age: 28y
birth of childLouis Du Bois |
| 1564 • French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida. |
1566
Age: 30y
birth of childJean Du Bois |
| 1566 • The Spanish doubloon is first minted during the reign of Philip II of Spain. |
1568
Age: 32y
birth of childPierre Du Bois Herseaux, West Flanders, Belgium ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1568 • Ashikaga Yoshiaki is installed as Shogun, beginning the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan. |
1607
Age: 71y
| 1607 • Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)] |
burialWicres Departement du Nord Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France ⇓ At the Saint-Vaast Churchyard. 1 Source ⇓ |