Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Mary Tudor was the younger surviving daughter of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She was the third wife of Louis XII of France, who was more than 30 years older than she. Her second marriage produced four children, and she was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey through her oldest daughter Frances. Lady Grey was the de facto Queen of England for nine days in July 1553.
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Mary Tudor was the younger surviving daughter of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She was the third wife of Louis XII of France, who was more than 30 years older than she. Mary’s second marriage produced four children, and she was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey through her oldest daughter Frances. Lady Grey was the de facto Queen of England for nine days in July 1553. Mary had been unhappy in her marriage of state to King Louis XII, as she was almost certainly already in love with Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. King Henry VIII was aware of Mary’s feelings; letters from her in 1515 indicated that she had agreed to wed Louis only on condition that if she survived him, she should marry whom she liked. At one point, even King Francis I, perhaps in hope of his wife Queen Claude’s death, was in the first week of her widowhood that one of her suitors was warned that she must not wed Charles. The couple wed in secret in Paris on 3 March 1515 in the Hotel de Clugny in the presence of the King of France.
The marriage required the intervention of Thomas Wolsey; Henry eventually pardoned the couple, after they paid a large fine. Mary was known in her youth as one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe; Erasmus said of her that ‘Nature never formed anything more beautiful.’ She was accompanied to France by four English maids of honour under the supervision of her old governess Lady or ‘Mother’ Guildford, who acted as her principal lady-in-waiting. As children, Mary and her brother, the future Queen Mary I, shared a close friendship. He named his first surviving child, thefuture QueenMary I, in her honour. She lost their mother when Mary was just six and, given the number of bills paid to her apothecary from 1504 to 1509, it would appear that Mary’s own health was fragile. Despite two previous marriages, Louis had no living sons, and sought to produce one. But he died on 1 January 1515, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber, but more likely from the effects of gout.
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