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Paternal Family Tree: Capet
Maternal Family Tree: Isabelle Beauvau Countess Vendôme 1436-1475
1558 Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the Francis Dauphin of France
1559 Henry II of France Dies Francis and Mary "Queen of Scots" Succeeds
1560 Death of Francis II King France Charles IX Succeeds
1575 Coronation and Marriage of Henry III King France
1588 "Day of the Dagger" Assassination of Henry 1st Duke Guise
On 28th October 1533 [her father] King Henry II of France (age 14) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 14) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. He the son of [her grandfather] King Francis I of France (age 39) and [her grandmother] Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France. They were sixth cousins.
On 14th May 1553 Margaret Valois Queen Consort France was born to [her father] King Henry II of France (age 34) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 34).
On 24th April 1558 [her brother] Dauphin of France (age 14) and [her sister-in-law] Mary Queen of Scots (age 15) were married at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral [Map]. He by marriage King Consort Scotland. She the daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland (age 42). He the son of [her father] King Henry II of France (age 39) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 39). They were third cousins. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
In 1559 [her brother-in-law] Charles "The Great" Lorraine III Duke Lorraine (age 15) and [her sister] Claude Valois Duchess Lorraine (age 11) were married. She by marriage Duchess Lorraine. She the daughter of [her father] King Henry II of France (age 39) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 39). He the son of Francis Lorraine I Duke Lorraine and Christina Oldenburg Duchess Lorraine (age 37). They were fourth cousins.
On 10th July 1559 [her father] King Henry II of France (age 40) was killed whilst jousting in celebration of his [her sister] daughter's (age 14) marriage to [her future brother-in-law] Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 32). His son [her brother] Francis (age 15) succeeded II King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. [her sister-in-law] Mary Queen of Scots (age 16) by marriage Queen Consort France. They would reign for eighteen months only with Francis dying in Dec 1560. Francis and Mary would have no issue.
On 20th July 1559 [her brother-in-law] Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 32) and [her sister] Elizabeth Valois Queen Consort Spain (age 14) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Spain. She the daughter of [her father] King Henry II of France (deceased) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 40). He the son of Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 5th December 1560 [her brother] Francis II King France King Consort Scotland (age 16) died. His brother [her brother] Charles (age 10) succeeded IX King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. [her sister-in-law] Mary Queen of Scots (age 17) no longer Queen of France she returned to Scotland arriving at Leith 19th August 1561 after having been in France for thirteen years.
On 14th May 1564 [her brother] Charles IX King France (age 13) was appointed 348th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 30).
On 3rd October 1568 [her sister] Elizabeth Valois Queen Consort Spain (age 23) died.
On 26th November 1570 [her brother] Charles IX King France (age 20) and [her sister-in-law] Elisabeth of Austria Queen Consort France (age 16) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Maximilian Habsburg Spain II Holy Roman Emperor (age 43) and Maria of Spain Holy Roman Empress (age 42). He the son of [her father] King Henry II of France and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 51). They were fourth cousins.
On 18th August 1572 Henry IV King France (age 18) and Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 53). He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were second cousins.
On 30th May 1574 [her brother] Charles IX King France (age 23) died. His brother [her brother] Henry (age 22) succeeded III King France: Capet Valois Angoulême.
In 1575 [her brother] Henry III King France (age 23) was appointed 361st Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 41).
On 13th February 1575 [her brother] Henry III King France (age 23) was crowned III King France: Capet Valois Angoulême at Reims Cathedral.
On 14th February 1575 [her brother] Henry III King France (age 23) and [her sister-in-law] Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France (age 21) were married at Reims Cathedral; the day after his coronation. She by marriage Queen Consort France. He the son of [her father] King Henry II of France and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 55). They were fourth cousins.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 12th May 1575 [her brother] Henry III King France (age 23) Abdicated King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. His second cousin [her husband] Henry (age 21) succeeded IV King France: Capet Valois Bourbon.
In 1576 [her brother] Francis Valois Duke Anjou (age 20) was appointed Duke Anjou.
On 10th June 1584 [her brother] Francis Valois Duke Anjou (age 29) died of malaria unmarried.
On 23rd December 1588 Henry 1st Duke Guise (age 37), leader of the Catholic League, was assassinated at the Château de Blois by the King's bodyguard whilst [her brother] Henry III King France (age 37) looked on.
On 5th January 1589 [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 69) died.
On 2nd August 1589 [her brother] Henry III King France (age 37) was assassinated.
In 1590 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 36) was appointed 374th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 56).
In 1599 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 45) divorced Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 45).
On 17th December 1600 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 47) and Marie de Medici Queen Consort France (age 25) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. The difference in their ages was 21 years. He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were fourth cousins.
In 1609 Henry Bourbon Condé II Prince Condé (age 20) and Charlotte Marguerite Montmorency Princess Condé (age 14) were married. She by marriage Princess Condé. A marriage arranged by [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 55) who wanted her for a mistress; the couple travelled to Brussels to avoid his attention. He the son of Henri Bourbon Condé Prince Condé and Charlotte Catherine Tremoille Princess Condé. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 14th May 1610 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 56) was murdered by François Ravaillac, a Catholic zealot who stabbed him while his coach was stopped on Rue de la Ferronnerie. His son Louis (age 8) succeeded XIII King France: Capet Valois Bourbon.
Letters of the Court of James I 1613. 26th August 1613. London. Reverend Thomas Lorkin to Thomas Puckering 1st Baronet (age 21).
Queen Margaret (age 60)1, I hear, is very sick, they say, out of conceit; for that it hath been told her, that the almanac doth foretel that this month one of the greatest women of Christendom shall die. The world would laugh, if so great a woman as she is (saith mine author) should have so little wit, as to be put to death by an almanac. The Prince of Conde (age 24), having overheated his body lately in hunting of the stag, fell into a burning ague, and was in some danger for four or five days; but now the violence of the disease being spent, there is a good hope conceived of his recovery.
The Duke d'Espernon (age 59), pretending to live in great fear of his life by reason of the mortal hatred, which divers of his enemies bear him, hath obtained of the queen, for better security, a guard of twenty men taken out of the regiment des gardes who accompany him up and down, wherever he goes; which is offensive to many, who think it strange that the public guard should be employed in the maintaining of his particular factions.
One Recion, a printer of the Religion, having long since reprinted the book of "Novus Homo," (which was published here in England before against the present Pope) was condemned by the Judge of the Chatelet to make an amende honorable before the court, and another before the Nuncio; the further sentence was, that the book should be burned at the Nuncio's gates; and the printer himself banished for ever out of Paris. From which sentence he appealing to the Court of Parliament, they have remitted all his other punishments, save banishment, and that they have restrained only to two years.
Those of the Religion having begun to build a college at Charenton, for the instruction of their youth, the lieutenant-civil adjourned the deputies-general to appear before him, to answer the matter; but they sent him word they were responsible to none but the chancellor, and do not let to go forward with the building; being confident they are sufficiently warranted thereunto by the grants and license of the last king. Richeome, the Jesuit, hath newly set forth at Bordeaux an answer of "Anti-Coton" and La Martaliere's Plea against the Jesuits, and I understand that Suarez2, the Jesuit, hath newly set forth a great book in quarto at Coimbra, in answer to his majesty's apology. The quarrel between the King of Denmark and the States' is now at length happily compounded. My Lord Harrington (deceased) and his lady (age 59) are, by this, I suppose, arrived in England, having left the Palatine's court above a fortnight since. Sir John is gone to meet them at Calais; otherwise, I suppose, your letter should ere now have received answer. Some time next week, if not the latter end of this, his majesty is expected here in London.
Note 1. The first wife of [her former husband] Henry IV of France, from whom she was divorced. She died 27th March, 1615.
Note 2. Francis Saurez, a Spanish theologian, who attacked James in a work written in defence of Catholicism, to which the king thought proper to reply by the hands of the hangman; a functionary who seems to have been much troabled at this period with the writings of zealoas controversialists. Saarez pablished twenty-three folio volumes, and died at Lisbon in 1613.
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On 27th March 1615 Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 61) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great Grand Daughter of Louis XII King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles V of France 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Valois Orléans 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gian Galeazzo Visconti 1st Duke Milan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Valois Orléans Count Angoulême 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Marguerite Rohan
GrandFather: King Francis I of France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy VIII Count Savoy 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Savoy I Count Savoy 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Valois Countess Savoy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Philip "Landless" Savoy II Duke Savoy 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Janus of Cyprus
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anglesia Visconti
Great x 1 Grandmother: Louise of Savoy Countess Angoulême 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bourbon I Duke Bourbon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Bourbon I Duke Bourbon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Valois I Duchess Auverge 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Bourbon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Valois Duchess Bourbon 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Father: King Henry II of France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles V of France 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Valois Duke Orléans 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gian Galeazzo Visconti 1st Duke Milan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis XII King France 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Adolph La Marck 6 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Adolph La Marck I Duke Cleves 7 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Jülich Countess Cleves and Mark 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Stephen I England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary La Marck Duchess Orléans 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marie Valois Duchess Cleves 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Montfort V Duke Brittany 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Montfort 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna of Navarre Queen Consort England 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Montfort II Duke Brittany 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne of Brittany Queen Consort France 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John I Count Foix
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gaston IV Count Foix
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jeanne Albret Countess Foix
Great x 2 Grandmother: Marguerite Foix Duchess Brittany 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John II King Aragon 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Trastámara Queen Consort Navarre 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Évreux Queen Consort Aragon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Margaret Valois Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Cosimo de Medici "The Elder"
Great x 3 Grandfather: Piero di Cosimo de Medici
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lorenzo de Medici
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Great x 1 Grandfather: Piero "The Unfortunate" de Medici
Great x 4 Grandfather: Orso Orsini
Great x 3 Grandfather: Giacomo Orsini
Great x 2 Grandmother: Clarice Orsini
GrandFather: Lorenzo de Medici Duke of Urbino
Mother: Catherine Medici Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bertrand IV Count Auvergne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bertrand Auvergne V Count Auvergne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie I Countess Auvergne
Great x 2 Grandfather: Bertrand Auvergne VI Count Auvergne
Great x 1 Grandfather: Jean IV Count Auvergne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Georges de La Trémoille
Great x 2 Grandmother: Louise de La Trémoïlle
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine de L'Isle-Bouchard
GrandMother: Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Jean Bourbon I Count La Marche 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Bourbon 1st Count Vendôme 1st Count Castres 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Vendome
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Bourbon VIII Count Vendôme 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guy Montfort Baron Laval
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jeanne Laval Countess Vendôme and Castres 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne 13th de Laval Baroness Laval 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jeanne Bourbon Duchess Bourbon 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabelle Beauvau Countess Vendôme