François de Vendôme, the Duc de Beaufort (January 16, 1616 - 25 June 1669) was the illegitimate grandson of Henri IV of France. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean. Duc de Beaufort was a title in the French nobility. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Dirk Hartog lands on an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church Births May 18 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ... Illegitimacy was a term in common usage for the condition of being born of parents who are not validly married to one another; the legal term is bastardy. ... This article is about the domestic group. ... By Frans Pourbus the younger. ... For the French feminist newspaper, see La Fronde The Fronde (1648–1653) was a civil war in France, followed by the Franco-Spanish War with Spain (1653–1659). ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...

In 1669 he led the French troops defending Candia against the Ottoman Turks, and was killed in a night sortie, on 5 June 1669. The Siege of Candia (Heraklion, Crete) (1648-1669) was possibly the longest siege in history. ... The Ottoman Turks were the ethnic subdivision of the Turkic people who dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. ... Sortie is a term for deployment of aircraft or ships for the purposes of a specific mission. ...

A fictional portrayal of Beaufort was a main character in Alexander Dumas's Twenty Years After, and reappeared in the Man in the Iron Mask, the final installment of the d'Artagnan Romances. Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ( July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. ...