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Francis I of France
King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 September 1494
- Died
- 31 March 1547
- Conflict
- Battle of Marignano, Battle of Pavia
- Place of birth
- Cognac
- Place of death
- Rambouillet
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- François
- Family name
- Valois
- Father
- Charles d'Orléans
- Mother
- Louise of Savoy
- Child
- Charlotte of Valois, Francis III, Henry II of France, Madeleine of Valois, Charles II, Duke of Orléans, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Louise de France, Nicolas d'Estouteville, Louis de Saint-Gelais
- Occupation
- politician, art collector, patron of the arts, monarch, literary scholar
- Position held
- King of France
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- cause of death
- disease
- depicted by
- Francis I of France (1494-1547), king of France, François Ier, pouvoir et image, Portrait of François I as St John the Baptist, Francis I and the art of the Netherlands, Entry into Paris of Francis I of France, Emperor Charles V and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, Leo X meets Francis I of France
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Contemporaries of Erasmus (vol. 2), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, New International Encyclopedia
- family
- House of Valois
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, Netherlands Photo Museum, Archives nationales
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Middle French, French
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- stuttering
- name
- roi François 1er
- name in native language
- François Ier
- nickname
- le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres, François du Grand Nez, le Roi-Chevalier
- noble title
- duke, count, King of France
- place of burial
- Basilica of Saint-Denis
- significant event
- French Renaissance, Italian Wars, Franco-Ottoman alliance, Field of the Cloth of Gold, Edict of Fontainebleau, Massacre of Mérindol
- significant person
- Guillaume Budé, Erasmus, Philipp Melanchthon, Pietro Bembo
- topic's main category
- Category:Francis I of France
- unmarried partner
- Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Françoise de Foix, La Belle Ferronnière, Claude de Rohan-Gié, Jacquette de Lansac, Marie Gaudin, Mary Boleyn
- writing language
- French
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