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FRANCIS II

Francis II was King of France. He was born in 1544 at Fontainebleau and died in 1560. The son of Henry II and Catharine of Medici, he ascended the throne on the death of his father, in 1559. The year previous he had married Mary Stuart, only Child of James V, the king of Scotland. The uncles of his wife, Francis, duke of Guise, and the Cardinal of Lorraine, held the reins of government.
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