Talk:Henry II of France

message: "leaving his young sons on the throne under the influence of such dominant people as Mary Queen of Scots..."?  Mary was just a teenager when Henri died.  She was hardly "dominant," she certainly didn't control the French throne for the brief period that she was Queen Consort. I am removing that statement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.251.41.61 (talk) 01:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: Can somebody write an Early Life/Childhood section for Henry II? It merely jumps right into his reign without explaining who his parents were, where he was born and raised, or the fact he was held hostage in Spain against his father for four years by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Nor does it explain how, why and when he became king.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.123.215 (talk) 06:05, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: . I added a link to second cousin and another sentence with the info that Francis and Claude both had Louis I, Duke of Orléans as a great-grandfather. Hope that helps. --Robert.Allen (talk) 00:26, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes! Thank you. Solo1y (talk) 19:22, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life?

message: What does mean by 'issue' here? Please clarify which issues people had or did not had. Were those health problems or something else?
As far as I can see, 'issue' means children, in the context of this article. - Ballista 17:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage and Issue 

message: This is not a relevant issue to a short biographical presentation of Henry II. The contention that Nostradamus's prophecy did not contain that quatrain during his lifetime is not proven or supported, either. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that Nostradamus did not even write the quatrains, but stole them from an abbey, and they were written 200 years before his own lifetime.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.10.39.191 (talk) 15:30, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The events surrounding his death are not as described in the article.  The prophecy states that the young lion will overcome the old lion, and both contestants were about the same age.  And neither henri nor his opponent used the lion as a symbol of their royal families.  The helmet was neither gold nor gilded, and there was only one wound sustained, and it did not affect either of his eyes.  My source on this is "Fidgeting fat, exploding meat & Gobbling Whirly birds" by dr Karl kruszelnicki (Harper Collins 1999), page 192.--Tiberius47 (talk) 11:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nostradamus Prophecy 

message: I just watched a documentary which seems to take as fact the idea that Nostradamus' supposed prediction of Henry's death made Nostradamus an international superstar. I'm curious the source for the statement that the connection wasn't made until well after Nostradamus' death.--24.21.254.55 08:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right; go ahead and remove the information. The prophecy had already been made by Gauric, and Henry was aware of it; but Nostradamus latched onto it, and many at the time believed Nostradamus was somehow responsible for the king's death. qp10qp 16:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the necessary footnote reference to the 'Prophecy' section, but it doesn't seem to be working. Would somebody rather more technically competent than I am care to fix the problem? --PL (talk) 10:54, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Gee, thanks, Hemmingsen! --PL (talk) 15:55, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Added citation request

message: Anyone wanting to add a section on court patronage might use the engraving at right by Jean Duvet, c 1548, emblemmatic of allegorical court fêtes. (It might get lost at Commons.).--Wetman 04:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Court style

message: No 19 in the table of ancestors was linked to Marguerite of Brittany, daughter of Duke Francis I. However she was married to Francis II of Brittany, not Alain IX of Rohan, and had no children in any case. The Marguerite of Brittany who actually married Alain IX was a daughter of John V, Duke of Brittany (sometimes also numbered John IV, which is confusing; this is due to differing views of his father the original John IV's rights). There is no page for the correct Marguerite, so I just removed the link.
81.153.251.131 (talk) 11:17, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancestry 

message: The accidental death of Henri II did not lead to the decline of jousting by any means. It remained popular long after his death. In England, for instance, the peak of the tournament was under the reign of Queen Elizabeth, with the Accession Day Tilt. This pageantry and elaborate jousting tournaments even continued to a lesser extend into the Jacobean era, thanks to the cult of personality of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and even Charles I is noted as having participated in the tournament as a young man. In Germany, the aristocracy was still fanatically obsessed with tilting and continued to do it even as late as the 1930s, in Saxony. The Augsburg and Greenwich armouries reached their technical and artistic peak in the late 1500s, and decorated armours from around this time feature lance rests so obviously they were being used for jousting. Maybe Henri II's death caused a drop in jousting in France, but not elsewhere in Europe. Golden Hound (talk) 13:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  His death did not lead to the decline of jousting 

message: The article was full of pictures, most of them didn't really added to the text, and the article suffered from some styling problems; so I moved some of the pictures to a gallery section, and spread through the article the ones that actually add relevant and enlightening information to it. If you disagree with this edit, please tell me which picture moved to the gallery you think does elaborate the article. Tomer T (talk) 14:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please see Talk:Henry III of France#Why the anglicized "Henry"? — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:09, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry versus Henri 

message: *I am submitting this as an edit request due to WP:3RR.
*The second near-duplicate paragraph should be deleted. It is faulty. The first paragraph should be retained, reading:
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*My other three edits are to be kept verbatim, to comply with policy. I am wholly unsure why all four were reverted together, when only the last one was a technical error. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 04:32, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request