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    Francis I of France - Wikipedia

    • Francis I (French: François I ; Middle French: Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son. A prodigious patron of the arts, Fr… See more

    BornFrancis of Orléans · 12 September 1494 · Château de Cognac, Cognac, France
    Died31 March 1547 (aged 52) · Château de Rambouillet, France
    SpousesClaude, Duchess of Brittany · (m. 1514; died 1524) · Eleanor of Austria (m. 1530)
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    Early life and Accession

    Francis of Orléans was born on 12 September 1494 at the Château de Cognac in the town of Cognac, which at that time lay in the province of Saintonge, a part of the Duchy of Aquitaine. Today the town lies in the … See more

    Reign

    As Francis was receiving his education, ideas emerging from the Italian Renaissance were influential in France. Some of his tutors, such as François de Moulins de Rochefort [fr] (his Latin instructor, … See more

     
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