♂ Charles Du Bois II

1536 - 1607

 

De Fiennes, Signeur de Bourse

Charles Du Bois II
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Parents
Antoine Du Bois
Antoine Du Bois
1512 - 1560
Baudouine Lyonnel
Baudouine Lyonnel
1516 - 1560
Spouse
Barbe De Beaufremez
Barbe De Beaufremez
1538 - 1588
Children

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 .

1558


Age: 22y
1558 • during the Arauco War, Pedro de Avendaño with sixty men capture Caupolicán, the Mapuche Gran Toqui leading their first revolt against the Spanish Empire, nearby Antihuala encamped with a small band of followers.

1560


Age: 24y

birth of child


Jacques Louis Wallerund Du Bois
1560 Denmark buys the Estonian island of Saaremaa from its last prince bishop.

1564


Age: 28y

birth of child


Louis Du Bois
1564 • Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sails from Mexico. Later, he will conquer the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.

1566


Age: 30y

birth of child


Jean Du Bois
1566 • The Compromise of Nobles is presented to Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, but succeeds only in delaying the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.

1568


Age: 32y
1568 • The Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.

1607


Age: 71y
1607 San Agustin Church, Manila, is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines

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