Rendsburg
a town of Schleswig- Holstein, Prussia, on the North Sea and Baltic Canal, 19 miles W. of Kiel. Pop. about 20,000. Rendsburg was taken by the Imperialists in 1627; by the Swedes in 1643; and by the Prussians and confederate troops in 1848. The first diet of Schleswig and Holstein met there April 3, 1848. It was reoccupied by the Danes in 1852, and taken by the Prussians after a serious conflict July 21, 1864.
RENÉ, surnamed THE GOOD, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence, and King of Sicily; born in Angers, France, Jan. 16, 1409; son of Louis II., Count of Anjou.
He married in 1420 Isabella of Lorraine, but was driven from that duchy and kept prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy for several years. He succeeded his brother, Louis III., in 1434, and was chosen successor to the kingdom of Naples by Queen Joanna II.; was liberated in 1436, and was afterward engaged in war for three years with Alfonso of Aragon.
Being unsuccessful in this conquest, René retired to Provence. His daughter Margaret was married, in 1445, to Henry VI. of England. On the seizure of Anjou by Louis XI. of France, in 1473, René retired to Aix, in Provence, where he died in 1480. His work on tournaments, and some of his poems and paintings, are still extant.