A Geek's Adventures

frenchhistory:

Mary (age 16) and Francis II (age 15) shortly after Francis was crowned King of France in 1559. From Catherine de’ Medici’s Book of Hours, Bibliotheque nationale de France

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Following the death of her father, James V, King of Scots, Mary I was crowned Queen of Scots in Stirling Castle at the age of nine months. The marriage between the Queen of Scots and the Dauphin of France, was arranged by Henry II of France in 1548, when Francis was just four years old. Once the marriage agreement had been formally ratified, the now six-year-old Mary was sent to France, to be raised in the royal court until the marriage.

On 24 April 1558, the fourteen-year-old Dauphin was married to the Queen of Scots in a union that could have given the future kings of France the throne of Scotland and also a claim to the throne of England through Mary’s great-grandfather, King Henry VII of England. However, Mary and Francis were to have no children during their short lived marriage.

… because he was not a healthy child to begin with and later died of an ear infection.

Mary… well, we all know her story.