Charlotte of Valois

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Charlotte of Valois

Charlotte in 1524, by Jean Clouet
House	House of Valois-Angoulême
Father	Francis I of France
Mother	Claude of France
Born	(1516-10-23)23 October 1516 Château d'Amboise
Died	18 September 1524(1524-09-18) (aged 7 years, 10 months) Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Burial	Basilica of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Charlotte of Valois (23 October 1516 – 18 September 1524) was the second child and second daughter of King Francis I and his wife Claude.

Early life

Charlotte, ca. 1517 by Jean Clouet

Charlotte was born in the Château d'Amboise, on 23 October 1516, the second daughter and child of King Francis I and Queen Claude. She had greenish blue eyes and bright red hair. She was one of the six children of the King and Queen that had red hair, a trait inherited from Anne of Brittany, Claude's mother. She lived a happy life, moving from the Château d'Amboise to the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye before March 1519.

Later life and death

The Princess spent all of her remaining days at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She had always been a delicate, frail child. At age seven, she contracted measles, the same disease which had killed her half-uncle, Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, thirty years earlier. The only person who looked after her while she was sick was her aunt, Margaret of Angoulême, as her mother had already died two months earlier, her grandmother Louise of Savoy was very sick, and her father had gone to war. He was later imprisoned, so was nowhere near his daughter at the time of her death. It appears as if Charlotte was very close to her aunt, who was heartbroken and distraught when her "little one"^{[citation needed]} died, on 18 September 1524.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Charlotte of Valois

16. Louis I, Duke of Orléans

8. John, Count of Angoulême

17. Valentina Visconti

4. Charles, Count of Angoulême

18. Alain IX of Rohan

9. Marguerite de Rohan

19. Marguerite of Brittany

2. Francis I of France

20. Louis, Duke of Savoy

10. Philip II, Duke of Savoy

21. Anne of Cyprus

5. Louise of Savoy

22. Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

11. Margaret of Bourbon

23. Agnes of Burgundy

1. Charlotte of Valois

24. Louis I de Valois, Duke of Orléans

12. Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orléans

25. Valentina Visconti

6. Louis XII of France

26. Adolph I, Duke of Cleves

13. Marie of Cleves

27. Mary of Burgundy

3. Claude, Duchess of Brittany

28. Richard of Brittany

14. Francis II, Duke of Brittany

29. Marguerite d'Orléans

7. Anne, Duchess of Brittany

30. Gaston IV, Count of Foix

15. Margaret of Foix

31. Eleanor of Navarre

References

Freer, Martha Walker. The Life of Marguerite D'Angoulême,Queen of Navarre. pp. 141–143. Second Edition, Revised. London, 1856.
The Cambridge Modern History. A. W. Ward, editor. Vol. 2, p. 417. MacMillan Company, 1904.
Portrait of Charlotte of France. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Persondata
Name	Valois, Charlotte of
Alternative names
Short description	French princess
Date of birth	23 October 1516
Place of birth	Château d'Amboise
Date of death	18 September 1524
Place of death	Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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