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The French Valois

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Charles V.

Charles VI.

Isabeau de Baviere

Charles VII.

Ludwig XI.

Charles VIII.

Anna de Bretagne

Ludwig XII.

Franz I.

Marguerite of Angoulême

Henry II.

Catherine de' Medici

Marguerite of Valois

Claude of France, Duchess of Lorraine


Born on:

12. November 1547


Deceased on:

20. February 1575


Father:

Mother:

Spouse:

Charles II. (1543-1608), Duke of Lorraine; marriage on 22. January 1559


Children:
  1. her son Henry, born on 8. November 1563, deceased on 31. July 1624; his first spouse was the sister of the French King Henry IV., Catherine of Bourbon and Navarre, they married in 1599; no children were produced in this marriage; his second spouse was Margherita Gonzaga (1591-1632), a daughter of Vincenzo I. Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and of Eleonora de' Medici, they married in 1606 and had four daughters (the family-tree of the dynasty of the Bourbons is available only in German)
  2. her daughter Christina, born on 16. August 1565, deceased on 19. December 1637; she married Ferdinand I. (1549-1609), Grand Duke of Tuscany
  3. her son Charles, born on 1. July 1567, deceased on 24. November 1607, Bishop of Strasbourg and since 1589 Cardinal of Lorraine
  4. her daughter Antoinette, born on 26. August 1568, deceased on 23. August 1610; she married Duke Johann Wilhelm of Kleve-Jülich-Berg (1562-1609) (the family-tree of the dynasty of the Hapsburgs and the House of Kleve is available only in German)
  5. her daughter Anna, born in 1569, deceased in 1576
  6. her son Francis II., Duke of Lorraine, born on 27. February 1572, deceased on 14. October 1632; in 1597 he married Christine of Salm (1575-1627); three sons and three daughters
  7. her daughter Catherine, born in 1573, deceased in 1648, Abbess of Remiremont (the family-tree of the dynasty of the Hapsburgs is available only in German)
  8. and 9.: her twins Claude and Elizabeth, born in 1574; Claude died already in 1576; Elizabeth married her cousin, Elector Maximilian I. of Bavaria (1573-1651) (the family-tree of the dynasty of the Hapsburgs is available only in German)