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Marriage and issue. On 18 May 1514, Francis married his second cousin Claude, the daughter of King Louis XII and Duchess Anne of Brittany. The couple had seven children: Louise (19 August 1515 – 21 September 1518): died young; engaged to Charles I of Spain almost from birth until death.
Francis I had seven children with his first queen Claude. The Queen consort died at a young age of 24 after having borne a child almost every year after being married. Most of Francis’s children died young and it is believed that Dauphin Francois was poisoned by Charles V.
When Francois I Roi de France was born on 12 September 1494, in Cognac, Charente, France, his father, Charles d'Angoulême, was 35 and his mother, Louise de Savoie, was 18. He married Claude the Good Queen de Valois de France on 18 May 1514, in Hautes-Alpes, France.
FRANCIS I, King of France, son of Charles of Valois, Count of Angouléme, and Louise of Savoy, was born at Cognac on the 12th of September 1494. The count of Angouléme, who was the great-grandson of King Charles V, died in 1496, and Louise watched over her son with passionate tenderness.
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. Those who lived to adulthood were: Henry, King of France. Madeline, Queen of Scotland. Margaret, Duchess of Berry.
Eleanor, along with Francois’s young sons who had been held hostage, were sent to France. Eleanor was crowned Queen of France when she married to Francois on 4 July 1530. François ignored her for much of their marriage as he felt he had been forced to marry her under duress. They had no children.
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Maria Theresa and Francis I had sixteen children, amongst them the last pre-revolutionary queen consort of France, their youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793). Francis was succeeded as Emperor by his eldest son, Joseph II, and as Grand Duke of Tuscany by his younger son, Peter Leopold (later Emperor Leopold II). Maria Theresa ...