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Francis II (French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560. He ascended the throne of France at age 15 after the accidental death of his father, Henry II, in 1559.
Francis II (born January 19, 1544, Fontainebleau, France—died December 5, 1560, Orléans) was the king of France from 1559, who was dominated throughout his reign by the powerful Guise family.
Francis II became the king of France on July 10, 1559, at the age of 15, after the death of his father in a jousting accident. He was crowned in Reims on September 21, 1559, by his uncle, Charles, the cardinal of Lorraine. He adopted the Sun as his emblem.
Mary Queen of Scots Grew Up in France With Francis. Aged five Mary Queen of Scots was sent to France by her mother Marie of Guise because she was contracted to marry Francis (Francois), the eldest son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici.
Francis II of France (January 19, 1544 – December 5, 1560) was a King of France and a member of the House of Valois.
Francis II (1768-1835) reigned as the last Holy Roman emperor from 1792 to 1806. As Francis I, he was emperor of Austria from 1804 to 1835. During his reign Austria became the principal bastion of European reaction.
On 30 June 1559, Henry II was badly wounded in a jousting accident in Paris and died in agony ten days later. Francis and his consort Mary, were now King and Queen of France. This allowed the Guises to take control of Government, and to reintroduce their plan to subsume Scotland under France.
Francis II, 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.
FRANCIS II. (, 5441 5 60), king of France, eldest son of Henry II. and of Catherine de' Medici, was born at Fontainebleau on the 19th of January 1544. He married the famous Mary Stuart, daughter of James V. of Scotland, on the 25th of April 1558, acid ascended the French throne on the 10th of July 1559.
King of France, the eldest son of King Henri II and Catherine de Médicis. In 1558, at the age of 14, he married the 16-year-old Mary, Queen of scots. ... From: Francis II in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »