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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: The Duke of Biron
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 07:04:38 -1000

Vide infra.

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~pd~ <> wrote in message
news:...
> DavidBotts wrote:
> >
> > The ISSBG notes today marks the anniversary of this event:
> >
> > 1602 The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with
Spain and
> > Savoy against King Henry IV of France.
> >
> > My question is just who is this Duke of Biron and was he a cousin
of Henry?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave Botts
> >
> > "Breaking from some audit work for a short spell"
>
>
> I also am researching Biron, and also Buren, the original german
> form of the name. Both these forms are found in the USA & Ca. I
> suppose you have by now read the helpful response from MTaHT,
> dated 30th. I am following the idea that le Duc took this name
> in his title from the old town of the same name founded possibly
> by one of earlier German origin, from which line arose the
> Hohenstauffen dynasty in the 11th. cent. Also of possible
> interest: http://www.farm.de/gerz/gerzEN/Biron.html and
> http://www.perigord.tm.fr/biron.html
>
> ~pd~

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