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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 • Andrés de Urdaneta and a few companions arrive in Lisbon, completing a circumnavigation which began with de Loaísa's expedition of 1525. |
1558
Age: 22y
marriageBarbe De Beaufremez France ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1558 • The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany. |
1560
Age: 24y
birth of childJacques Louis Wallerund Du Bois |
| 1560 • Seventeen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is widowed by the death of her first husband, King Francis II of France. Her mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, becomes regent of France. |
1564
Age: 28y
birth of childLouis 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 childJean 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
birth of childPierre Du Bois Herseaux, West Flanders, Belgium ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1568 • Battle of Heiligerlee: Troops under Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat a smaller loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands. This is effectively the start of the Eighty Years' War. |
1607
Age: 71y
| 1607 • Jamestown President Edward Maria Wingfield is deposed and John Ratcliffe elected. |
burialWicres Departement du Nord Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France ⇓ At the Saint-Vaast Churchyard. 1 Source ⇓ |