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Louise Of Savoy

French regent
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French:
Louise De Savoie
Born:
Sept. 11, 1476, Pont d’Ain, France
Died:
Sept. 22, 1531, Grez, near Fontainebleau (aged 55)
Notable Family Members:
daughter Margaret of Angoulême
son Francis I

Louise Of Savoy (born Sept. 11, 1476, Pont d’Ain, France—died Sept. 22, 1531, Grez, near Fontainebleau) was the mother of King Francis I of France, who as regent twice during his reign played a major role in the government of France. The daughter of Philip II the Landless, duke of Savoy, and Marguerite de Bourbon, Louise married Charles de Valois-Orléans, comte d’Angoulême; they had two children, Margaret, future queen of Navarre and patron of Humanists and Reformers, and Francis, who became heir presumptive to the French crown on the accession of Louis XII in 1498. In 1515 Francis ascended the ...(100 of 216 words)

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