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Louis XII (born June 27, 1462, Blois, France—died January 1, 1515, Paris) was the king of France from 1498, noted for his disastrous Italian wars and for his domestic popularity. Son of Charles, duc d’Orléans, and Marie de Clèves, Louis succeeded his father as duke in 1465.
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Bibliography. Louis XII (27 June 1462 – 1 January 1515) was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his second cousin once removed and brother-in-law, Charles VIII, who died childless in 1498.
Cardinal Wolsey negotiated a peace treaty with France, and on 9 October 1514, at the age of 18, Mary married the 52-year-old King Louis XII of France at Abbeville. [22] [23] She was accompanied to France by several English maids of honour (one of whom was Anne Boleyn ) [24] [25] under the supervision of her old governess Lady or "Mother ...
Description. This is the most famous image of Louis XII (1462 – 1515) who succeeded Charles VIII, as king of France in 1498 and married Charles’ widow, the former Queen-Consort, Anne de Bretagne. After her death in 1514, Louis married Mary Tudor, the sister of the king of England Henry VIII, on 9 October of the same year.
May 8, 2018 · In 1514 Louis arranged the marriage of Claudia to Francis of Angoulême, a prince of the younger branch of the house of Orléans and heir apparent to the throne. After Queen Anne died (1514), Louis XII remarried, partly in accord with the needs of his foreign policy and partly in the hope that he might yet have a son.
On her death in January 1514, in order to detach England from the alliance against him, he married on the 9th of October 1514, Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England. He died on the 1st of January 1515. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol XVII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 41.
Feb 8, 2024 · On 9 October 1514, an 18-year-old English princess married a 52-year-old French King in Abbeville, France. The bride was Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII. A renowned beauty, Mary’s red-gold hair glowed beneath a coronet of precious stones, worn long and loose as a symbol of purity.
