King d' Angleterre of 1509 to 1547, Henri VIII turned himself several times against France.

Irritated against the Holy See, which refused to cancel its marriage with Catherine d' Aragon, it was made declare by its Parliament supreme chief of the Church of England (1531), and married successively Anne de Boleyn, Jeanne Seymour, Anne de Clèves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr; two of them perished on the scaffold.

Charles-Quint, born in Ghent in 1500, was son of Philippe the Beautiful, archduke of Austria, and Jeanne the Insane one, girl of Ferdinand the Catholic and Isabelle de Castille.

He was a king d' Espagne with died of his maternal grandfather (1516), and emperor of Germany with died of his paternal grandfather Maximilien (1519).

He abdicated in 1556, withdrew himself with the convent of Saint-Just, in Spain, and died there in 1558.

François 1st, who had valiantly gained his spurs with Marignan, wanted to be armed knight on the battle field; he made come Bayard, the knight without fear and reproach, and says to him: "Bayard, my friend, I want to be made knight by your hands, because you are worthiest" Then Bayard fired his sword, achieves all the rites of the antique ceremony, and gave the accodance to the king: "Lord I make you knight, says it, God wants that I give you assistance as much as if I were Roland, Olivier or Godefroy de Bouillon."

Bayard heroically supported the retirement with some brave men, when it accepted in the kidneys a blow of arquebus: "My God, says it, I died! "His companions gave up it under a tree, and soon appeared the Spanish avant-garde.

Bourbon, which ordered it, met dying it and felt sorry for it of its fate: "It is not me which am to feel sorry for, the good knight answered, because I die as a man of good, but I have pity of you, Sir, who are useful against your prince, your fatherland and your oath! "(1524)