Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
Louis II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and comte de Dunois (1510 – 9 June 1537) was a French aristocrat and the first husband of Mary of Guise,[1] who later became queen consort of Scotland and mother to Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the second son of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville by his wife Jeanne of Hochberg, and succeeded his brother Claude when the latter died in 1524.[2]
He married Mary of Guise on 4 August 1534 at the Louvre Palace. During their brief marriage, the couple had two children:
- François, born 30 October 1535, who would later succeed to the dukedom[2]
- Louis, a posthumous child born 4 August 1537, who died four months later.[3]
Louis died at Rouen on 9 June 1537,[4][a] Mary would later marry James V of Scotland.[1]
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Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Carroll 1998, p. 46.
- ^ a b Potter 1995, p. 373.
- ^ Warnicke 2006, p. 19.
- ^ Potter 1995, p. 356.
Sources
[edit]- Carroll, Stuart (1998). Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge University Press.
- Potter, David (1995). A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press.
- Warnicke, Retha M. (2006). Mary Queen of Scots. Taylor & Francis.