He had a relationship with Catherine de Medici.
Child(ren):
Henry was succeeded by his sickly fifteen-year-old son, Francis II.[26] Francis was married to sixteen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, who had been his childhood friend and fiancée since her arrival at the French court when she was five.[27] Francis II died in December 1560, and Mary returned to Scotland in August 1561.[28] Francis II was succeeded by his ten-year-old brother Charles IX. His mother, Catherine de Medici, acted as regent.[29]
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