Francis I King of France

Standard Name: Francis I,, King of France

Used Form: Francis the First

Used Form: François I

Used Form: Francois I

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Marguerite de Navarre	Her brother, who was the younger by two years, became François I, King of France , when Louis XII died on New Years Day 1515. Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Five Famous French Women. Cassell, 1905. 167-8
Occupation	Marguerite de Navarre	She helped, with her mother, to negotiate the Ladies' Peace of 1529. François made her his representative in foreign, domestic, and military affairs; she wielded power for nearly a decade until she clashed with him...
Textual Production	Julia Pardoe	In The Court and Reign of Francis the First , King of France, JP added another to her series of domestic biographies of denizens of the French court. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production	Fanny Kemble	FK published Francis the First: An Historical Drama in verse under her own name; it appeared in the United States as Francis the First ; a Tragedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	A. Mary F. Robinson	She focused on French architecture and architects, including Francis I , Pierre Lescot , and Jean Bullant . “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240
Travel	Marguerite de Navarre	When in 1525 her brother King François was captured in battle by his rival, Emperor Charles V , MN travelled to Spain to get him released. Weber, Caroline. “The Limits of Chivalry”. London Review of Books, Vol. 36 , No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 36-7. 36

Timeline

June 1520

Henry VIII met François I in an international peace summit at Guines in France, later known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Rehder, Robert. “Realism Again: Flauberts Barometer and The Unfortunate TravellerNarrative Strategies in Early English Fiction, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 241-58.

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Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.

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1537

François I issued an ordinance requiring publishers throughout France to deposit a copy of every new book published in the Royal Library at Blois.

Barnard, John. “Politics, Profits and ?Idealism: John Norton, The Stationers’ Company and Sir Thomas Bodley”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.

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, No. 6, Oct. 2002, pp. 385-30.

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