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Marriage of François d’Angoulême and Claude of France

By Olivia LonguevilleIn Tudor & Renaissance BlogPosted May 19, 2020

On the 18th of May 1514, François d’Angoulême, the future King François I of France, married his distant cousin Claude, the eldest of the two surviving daughters of Queen Anne and King Louis XII.  The quiet ceremony took place in the atmosphere of lament in a chapel at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which...

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