
Claude of France, Duchess of Lorraine
Born on:
12. November 1547
Deceased on:
20. February 1575
Father:
King Henry II. of France (1519-1559)
Mother:
Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589)
Spouse:
Charles II. (1543-1608), Duke of Lorraine; marriage on 22. January 1559
Children:
- 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)
- her daughter Christina, born on 16. August 1565, deceased on 19. December 1637; she married Ferdinand I. (1549-1609), Grand Duke of Tuscany
- her son Charles, born on 1. July 1567, deceased on 24. November 1607, Bishop of Strasbourg and since 1589 Cardinal of Lorraine
- 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)
- her daughter Anna, born in 1569, deceased in 1576
- 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
- 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)
- 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)

