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Originally her family planned for her to become a nun , but her father's death in relieved her of this obligation and thereafter Anna carried out an adventurous life. Anna fell passionately in love with her maternal second cousin Henry II, Duke of Guise ; later, she claimed to have contracted a secret marriage with him in , which he denied. In , she disguised herself as a man to join him in Sedan , but he gave her up the following year, in She brought a lawsuit against him, demanding recognition as his wife. On 24 April in Paris, Anna was married, without much enthusiasm, to Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern , a nineteen-year-old, landless and penniless German nobleman who was nine years her junior.
According to the Italian historian Signor G. Ludwika Maria , had designated Anne Henriette as her heir and was committed to supporting the candidature of the Duke of Enghien for the Polish throne. Anna's mother was a member of the "ultra-Catholic" Guise family , and Anna appears to have been deeply devoted to the religion, especially in her later years.
Besides being illegitimately descended from a pope , [3] she was the granddaughter of Charles de Guise , head of the Catholic League of France , which his assassinated brother had formed. Anna managed to convert her Calvinist husband to Catholicism despite his mother, Elizabeth Stuart 's threats to disown any of her children who became Catholic.
Elizabeth forgave her son surprisingly quickly. In , Edward died in Paris aged Sophia was never declared heiress presumptive to Scotland. She would have acceded to Anne's crown, had she not died a few weeks before Queen Anne did. Williams, "it is possible that the English throne would have been held by his descendants.
In , Anna Gonzaga rededicated herself to Catholicism and completely changed her lifestyle. She died in Bossuet delivered her famous funeral oration. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ancestors of Anne Gonzaga Frederick II, Duke of Mantua Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers William IX, Marquess of Montferrat 9. Interior very clean with only the barest hints of foxing and some browning to a couple pages in the middle from a flower that was pressed there.
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