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Francis I (French) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1515 until his death. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a male heir. A prodigal patron of the arts, he initiated the French Renaissance by attracting many Italian ...
Catholicism. Signature. Francis II ( French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560. He ascended the throne of France at age 15 after the accidental death of his father, Henry II, in 1559.
The tomb of Francis I, his wife Claude de France and three of their children was built in 1558, around ten years after the king’s death. This two-storey funeral monument in white and black marble was designed by Philibert Delorme. It was inspired by the triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Rome. Inside the tomb, the royal couple are ...
Francis was born in Cognac, France on September 12, 1494. His parents were Charles, Duke of Angoulême and Louise of Savoy. Marriage. Francis I married Claude of France on May 18, 1514. They had seven children, two died before turning eight, two died at the ages of eighteen to twenty-three.
One of the most famous encounters took place on the so-called Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520, toward the summit bringing together Henry VIII of England and François I of France. The young English monarch, whose titles still included “ King of France ,” had resumed the old struggle in 1512. But his advisor Cardinal Thomas Wolsey ...
May 9, 2024 · Francis I (born May 11, 1414, Vannes, Fr.—died July 19, 1450) was the duke of Brittany (from 1442), son of John V (or VI). He had his brother Gilles thrown into prison and put to death for allegedly spying for the English, with whom he warred (1449–50). The king of France intervened and expelled the English from Normandy.
933. Region. Europe. The Château de Chambord ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d (ə) ʃɑ̃bɔʁ]) in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture, which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.
