Threads of Silk
Authors: Linda Lee Chaikin
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LINDA LEE CHAIKIN
ZONDERVAN
Threads of Silk
Copyright © 2008 by Linda Chaikin
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Mobipocket Edition February 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-54257-5
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chaikin, L. L.
Threads of silk / Linda Lee Chaikin.
p. cm. — (The silk house; bk. 3)
ISBN-13: 978-0-310-27310-3
1. Catherine de Medicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519 – 1589 — Fiction. 2. Dressmakers — Fiction. 3. Courts and courtiers — Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H2427T485 2008
813’.54 — dc22
2007027367
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King James Version
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Contents
PART 2: In the Shadow of the Serpent
Catch Up on the First Two Books in the Silk House Series!
Duchesse Montpensier
— of the House of Bourbon, a Huguenot
M. Jacques Lefévre d’Étaples
— translated first Bible into French
M. John Calvin
— writer of
Institutes of the Christian Religion
(
Christianae
Religionis Institutio
)
Prince Louis de Condé
— French general, of the House of Bourbon
Prince Antoine de Bourbon
— older brother of Louis. He later became King of Navarre through marriage to Huguenot Queen Jeanne d’Albret of Navarre.
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
— had Normandy and Picardy under his security
Cardinal de Châtillon(Odet Coligny)
— brother of Gaspard and d’Andelot Coligny
Mary Stuart (la petite reinette)
— married Dauphin Francis Valois who became King Francis II
Charles de Montpensier (Duc de Bourbon)
— had rights to the throne that equaled, if not exceeded, those of the Valois
“Capitaine” l’Ollonaise
— French pirate
Henry of Anjou
— third son of Catherine de Medici and King Henry II (Valois)
Duc Francis de Guise
— of the infamous Borgias family from Florence, Italy
Catherine de Medici
— Queen and Regent of France over Francis II and Charles II Valois
Princesse Marguerite Valois
— daughter of Catherine de Medici and King Henry II (Valois), also called Margo
Monsieur Henry Guise
— later a duc, younger son of Duc Francis de Guise.
Anne d’Este
— wife of Duc de Guise (Francis)
Charles de Guise (Cardinal de Lorraine)
— younger brother of Duc Francis de Guise
Mme. Charlotte de Presney
— member of Catherine’s escadron volant
Madalenna
— Italian serving girl of Catherine de Medici
Prince Henry of Navarre
— son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d’Albret, King and Queen of Navarre
Maître Avenelle
— the betrayer of the Huguenots
Princesse Eleonore Condé
— a niece of Admiral Gaspard Coligny
Messire de la Renaudie
— a leader of the Huguenots, a retainer of Prince Louis de Condé
Ambroise le Pare
— physician and surgeon to kings, a Huguenot
Princesse Elisabeth Valois
— daughter of Catherine and Henry Valois, married Philip II of Spain
Montmorency family and the Constable of France
— Catholics who sided with the Bourbons in the end
Machiavelli
— Niccolo Machiavelli, a cunning and cruel man; he was associated with corrupt, totalitarian government because of a small pamplet he wrote called “The Prince” to gain influence with the ruling Medici family in Florence.
Alessandro (the abuser)
— a brother of Catherine de Medici
Cosmo and Lorenzo Ruggerio
— brothers from Florence, Catherine’s astrologers and poison makers
Rene
— parfumer, also Catherine’s poisoner
Duc of Alva
— Spanish general
Marechal de Saint Andre
— a marshal of France
Monsieur Theodore Beza
— French Reformer, disciple of John Calvin
Cardinal d’Este
— from Ferrara, Italy
Poet Tasso
— a poet from Italy
Ronsard
— a poet who served the Valois Court
Hercule Valois
— the fourth and youngest son of Catherine and Henry Valois, little is known of him
Anne du Bourg
— a Huguenot man sent to the Bastille by Henry II. He was burned at the stake under the Cardinal de Lorraine when boy-king Francis ruled with Queen Mother Catherine. The Huguenots then felt betrayed and planned the Amboise plot.
Nostradamus
— a soothsayer in the Roman Catholic Church
Jacopo Sadeleto
— Archbishop of Carpentras
Chantonnay
— Thomas Perrenot de Chantonnay, Spanish ambassador to France
Alencome
— Monsieur Ronsard d’Alencome, French Ambassador to the English Court and spy for Catherine
H
OW FAR BEHIND IS THE ENEMY
? A
DAY
,
SEVERAL HOURS
?
O
R ARE THEY AHEAD
,
waiting in ambush
?