medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"Louis was then free to
marry his predecessor's widow in order to retain Brittany (of which she was the heiress)"
Said widow was Anne de Bretagne, the only French queen to the second power. I believe - but am too tired to check - that it was part of the marriage contract between Anne and Charles VIII that she would marry his successor should he predecease her and leave no male issue. (How, one wonders, did anyone know if the successor would be free to marry.) Louise de Savoie sweated out Louis XII's three marriages (the last to Henry VIII's sister, Mary of York), fearing an heir that would get between her "César" and the throne. Louise relaxed when François d'Angoulême came to the throne in 1515 as François I.
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