Francis II of France | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Francis II of France


00:01:11 1 Childhood and education (1544–1559)
00:03:48 2 Becoming king
00:06:52 3 Reign (1559–1560)
00:07:03 3.1 Domestic policy
00:07:12 3.1.1 Catholic-Protestant religious strife
00:07:58 3.1.2 Unpopularity of the Guise government
00:10:11 3.1.3 Amboise conspiracy
00:12:37 3.1.4 Conciliation policy
00:15:11 3.1.5 Countryside revolt
00:17:22 3.2 Foreign policy
00:19:36 3.2.1 Loss of Scotland
00:22:01 3.3 Death
00:23:20 4 Posterity
00:23:51 5 Titles and arms
00:24:16 6 Portrayals
00:24:33 7 Ancestry



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Francis II (French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was a King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King consort of Scotland as a result of his willing marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1558 until his death in 1560. Francis was the eleventh king from the House of Valois, the fourth from the Valois-Orléans branch, and the third from the Valois-Orléans-Angoulême branch.
He ascended the throne of France at the age of fifteen after the accidental death of his father, Henry II, in 1559. His short reign was dominated by the first stirrings of the French Wars of Religion.
Although the royal age of majority had been set at fourteen, his mother, Catherine de' Medici, entrusted the reins of government to his wife's uncles from the House of Guise, staunch supporters of the Catholic cause. They were unable to help Catholics in Scotland against the progressing Scottish Reformation, however, and the Auld Alliance was dissolved.
Francis was succeeded by two of his brothers in turn, both of whom were also unable to reduce tensions between Protestants and Catholics.