Claude of France


Claude of France , daughter of Louis XII, inherited the Duchy of Brittany from her mother, Anne, and became Queen of France as the first wife of Francis I.

Claude was born onOctober 1499 in RomorantinLanthenay as the eldest daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany. She was named after Claudius of Besanon, a saint her mother had invoked during a pilgrimage so she could give birth to a living child during her two marriages, Queen Anne had at least fourteen pregnancies, of whom, only two children survived to adulthood Claude and her youngest sister Rene, born in 1510.

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