Personal and Political Aspects in the Correspondence of Henri IV

Genealogical Table of the Later Valois


The Later Valois

François I (1517-1547) m (1)Claude de France, daughter of Louis XII
(five children, shown in next table)
 (2)Eleanor of Austria, sister of Charles IV
(no offspring)

 

Children of François I and Claude de France

François
(d 1536)		 Henri II
(1547-1559)
m Catherine de' Medici
(d 1589)
(eight children, shown in next table)		 Madeleine
(d. 1537)
m James V of Scotland		 Charles
(d. 1545)
Duke of Orléans		 Marguerite
(d. 1574)
m. Emmanuel Philibert
Duke of Savoy

 

Children of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici

Francis II
(1559-1560)
m Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scots		 Elizabeth
(d. 1568)
m Philip II
of Spain		 Claude
(d. 1575)
Duke of
Orleans		 Louis
(d. 1550)		 Charles IX
(1560-1574)
m Elizabeth of
Austria		 Henry III
(1574-1589)
m Louise of
Lorraine		 Marguerite
(d. 1615)
m Henry of
Navarre
(later Henry IV,
1589-1610		 François
(d. 1584)


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