deaths
January 25, 1670
Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (born 1612)
Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine
Nicholas Francis, also known as Nicholas II, was briefly Duke of Lorraine and Duke of Bar for a few months in 1634, spanning the time between the abdication of his older brother and his own resignation. He was therefore duke during the invasion of Lorraine by the French in the Thirty Years War.