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Francis II

= Francois II

Born: 1544 Father: Henry II Mother: Catherina de' Medici King: 1559-1560 Age: 15 Wife: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland Children: No Died: 1560 Age: 16

Francis II, drawing by Francois Clouet

1544–60, king of France (1559–60), son of King Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici. He married (1558) Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart), and during his brief reign the government was in the hands of her uncles, François and Charles de Guise. Their ruthless persecution of Protestantism led to the conspiracy of Amboise (1560), an attempt to remove the Guises from power. During Francis’s reign French Protestantism became a political force. Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX.

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