Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Francis II , who had always been a sickly child , died on 5 December 1560 in OrlÃ ans , Loiret , at the age of sixteen , when an ear infection worsened and caused an abscess in his brain .
Simplified: Francis died in Orleans , France , on December 5 , 1560 because of an ear infection .