Ancestral Trails 2016 » Francis de FRANCE I (1494-1547)

Persoonlijke gegevens Francis de FRANCE I 

• Hij is geboren op 12 september 1494 in Château de Cognac, France.
• Hij is overleden op 31 maart 1547 in Château de Rambouillet, France, hij was toen 52 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Charles d'ORLEANS en Louise de SAVOY

Gezin van Francis de FRANCE I

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Claude de FRANCE.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 18 mei 1514 te Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Ile-de-France, France, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Louise de FRANCE  1515-1517
2. Charlotte de FRANCE  1516-1524
3. Charles de FRANCE  1522-1545
4. Francis de FRANCE  1518-1536
5. Madeleine de VALOIS  1520-1537
6. Henri de FRANCE  1519-1559 
7. Margaret de FRANCE  1523-1574 

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Notities over Francis de FRANCE I

Francis I (12 September 1494 - 31 March 1547) was the first King of France from the Angoulême branch of the House of Valois, reigning 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 prodigious patron of the arts, he initiated the French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work on the Château de Chambord, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired. Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the rise of absolute monarchy in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World. Jacques Cartier and others claimed lands in the Americas for France and paved the way for the expansion of the first French colonial empire.

For his role in the development and promotion of a standardized French language, he became known as le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres (the "Father and Restorer of Letters"). He was also known as François au Grand Nez ("Francis of the Large Nose"), the Grand Colas, and the Roi-Chevalier (the "Knight-King") for his personal involvement in the wars against his great rival the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V.

Following the policy of his predecessors, Francis continued the Italian Wars. The succession of Charles V to the Burgundian Netherlands, the throne of Spain, and his subsequent election as Holy Roman Emperor, meant that France was geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy. In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, he sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. When this was unsuccessful, he formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time.

Francis 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 department of Charente.

Francis was the only son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy and a great-great-grandson of King Charles V of France. His family was not expected to inherit the throne, as his third cousin King Charles VIII was still young at the time of his birth, as was his father's cousin the Duke of Orléans, later King Louis XII. However, Charles VIII died childless in 1498 and was succeeded by Louis XII, who himself had no male heir. The Salic Law prevailed in France, thus females were ineligible to inherit the throne. Therefore, the four-year-old Francis (who was already Count of Angoulême after the death of his own father two years prior) became the heir presumptive to the throne of France in 1498 and was vested with the title of Duke of Valois.

In 1505, Louis XII, having fallen ill, ordered that his daughter Claude and Francis be married immediately, but only through an assembly of nobles were the two engaged.[3] Claude was heiress to the Duchy of Brittany through her mother, Anne of Brittany. Following Anne's death, the marriage took place on 18 May 1514. Louis died shortly afterwards and Francis inherited the throne. He was crowned King of France in the Cathedral of Reims on 25 January 1515, with Claude as his queen consort.

Francis died at the Château de Rambouillet on 31 March 1547, on his son and successor's 28th birthday. It is said that "he died complaining about the weight of a crown that he had first perceived as a gift from God". He was interred with his first wife, Claude, Duchess of Brittany, in Saint Denis Basilica. He was succeeded by his son, Henry II.

Francis' tomb and that of his wife and mother, along with the tombs of other French kings and members of the royal family, were desecrated on 20 October 1793 during the Reign of Terror at the height of the French Revolution.

Marriage and issue
On 18 May 1514, Francis married his second cousin Claude, the daughter of King Louis XII of France and Duchess Anne of Brittany. The couple had seven children:

Louise (19 August 1515 --21 September 1517) - died young, engaged to Charles I of Spain almost from birth until death.
Charlotte (23 October 1516 --8 September 1524) - died young, engaged to Charles I of Spain from 1518 until death.
Francis (28 February 1518 --10 August 1536), who succeeded Claude as Duke of Brittany, but died unmarried and childless.
Henry II (31 March 1519 --10 July 1559), who succeeded Francis I as King of France and married Catherine de' Medici, by whom he had issue.
Madeleine (10 August 1520 --2 July 1537), who married James V of Scotland and had no issue.
Charles (22 January 1522 - 9 September 1545), who died unmarried and childless.
Margaret (5 June 1523 - 14 September 1574), who married Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, in 1559 and had issue.

On 7 July 1530, Francis I married his second wife Eleanor of Austria, a sister of the Emperor Charles V. The couple had no children. During his reign, Francis kept two official mistresses at court. The first was Françoise de Foix, Countess of Châteaubriant. In 1526, she was replaced by the blonde-haired, cultured Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes who, with the death of Queen Claude two years earlier, wielded far more political power at court than her predecessor had done. Another of his earlier mistresses was allegedly Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII and sister of Henry's future wife, Anne Boleyn.
SOURCE: Wikipedia


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