death_date consort birth_date reign father house death_place title image_size image name caption predecessor succession birth_place successor mother burial_place article_title
24 october 1550 no 3 february 1549 3 february 1549 24 october 1550 henry ii of france house of valois-angoulême mantes-la-jolie duke of orléans 150px d2ed0a7b2a.jpg louis a ' medici 's '' book of hours '' depiction of the young prince in catherine de charles ii duke of orléans fontainebleau , paris charles iii catherine de ' medici basilica of st denis louis of valois

louis of valois

louis de france -lrb- 3 february 154924 october 1550 -rrb- , also known as louis iii , duke of orléans was the second son and fourth child of henry ii -lrb- 31 march 151910 july 1559 -rrb- , king of france and his wife , catherine de ' medici , daughter of lorenzo ii de ' medici , duke of urbino and his wife madeleine de la tour d'auvergne .
he died aged eleven months .
