Madeleine of Valois
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Madeleine of Valois was a French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland in 1537 as the first wife of King James V. The marriage was arranged in accordance with the Treaty of Rouen, and they wer
Portrait by Corneille de la Haye
Portrait of Madeleine misidentified as her older sister, Charlotte of Valois by Jean Clouet (c. 1522)
Madeleine (back right) with her mother and sisters, from the Book of Hours of Catherine de'Medici.
Notre-Dame de Paris and its environs, known as the Parvis, Jean Marot, 17th century
Francis I of France
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Francis I 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 X
Madeleine of Valois
…in her nickname, the "Summer Queen". Madeleine was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the fifth child and third daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, herself the eldest daughter of King Louis XII and Duchess Anne of Brittany. She was frail from birth, and grew up in…
Portrait by Jean Clouet, c. 1527–30
Francis I painted in 1515
Francis I receiving the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, by Ingres, painted in 1818
Francis's Château de Chambord displays a distinct French Renaissance architecture.