Henry II of France Totally Explained

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Marriage and Issue

On October 28 1533, he married Catherine de' Medici (April 13 1519 - January 5 1589). After initial problems in conceiving, they produced ten children:

Name	irth	eath	otes
Francis II, King of France	January 19 1544	December 5 1560	Married Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 - 1587) in 1558. Had no issue.
Elizabeth, Princess of France	April 2 1545	October 3 1568	Married Philip II, King of Spain (1527 - 1598) in 1559. Had issue.
Claude of Valois	November 12 1547	February 21 1575	Married Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543 - 1608). Had issue.
Louis of France	February 3, 1549	October, 1549	Died young. Had no issue.
Charles IX, King of France	June 27 1550	May 30 1574	Married Elizabeth of Austria (1554 - 1592) in 1570. Had issue.
Henry III, King of France	September 19 1551	August 2 1589	Married Louise of Lorraine in 1575. Had no issue. Briefly King of Poland in 1574.
Margaret, Princess of France	May 14 1553	March 27 1615	Known as Margot. Married Henry IV, King of France. Divorced and had no issue.
Hercules, Prince of France	March 18 1555	June 19 1584	Later known as Francis, Duke of Alencon and Anjou.
Joan, Princess of France	June 24 1556	June 24 1556	Twin with Victoria, Princess of France. Died young. Had no issue.
Victoria, Princess of France	June 24 1556	August 1556	Twin with Joan, Princess of France. Died young. Had no issue.

Henry II also had four illegitimate children:

By Catherine Michelle: Elaine de francias (1557)-(1635) Henry supposedly questioned wether or not to give her a title and it wasn't until his death bed that he admitted to her being his. He gave her the title Countess de Montmorency. It is questioned as to why he was so secretive about this one daughter.
By Filippa Duci: Diane, Duchesse d'Angoulême (1538-1619). Some sources have stated that the little girl was the natural daughter of Henry's long-time mistress, Diane de Poitiers. This is probably not the case since Henry had Filippa Duci monitored closely throughout her pregnancy, and there's a record of this. She gave birth to the baby in a convent and it appears that she remained there for the rest of her life. The younger Diane married (at the age of 14) Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro. He died young in battle. Her second marriage was to François, Duc de Montmorency.
By Lady Janet Stewart (1508-1563), herself an illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland: Henri de Valois (1551- June 1586). He was legitimized and became governor of Provence.
By Nicole de Savigny: a son, Henri (1557-1621), whom Henry didn't legitimize because he was unsure about his paternity. He gave him the title of Comte de Saint-Rémy. One of his last descendants was to be Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte, famous for her role in the Diamond Necklace Affair.

Prophecy

Michel Nostradamus, the French astrologer known for his prophecies, is often said to have first become famous when one of his quatrains was construed as a prediction of the death of King Henry II:
CI, Q 35 The young lion shall overcome the older one,
on the field of combat in single battle,
He shall pierce his eyes in a golden cage,
Two forces one, then he'll die a cruel death.
But in fact the link was first proposed in print only in 1614, 55 years after the event and 48 after Nostradamus's death. The Italian astrologer Luca Gaurico, a contemporary of Nostradamus, is also said to have predicted the king's death.

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