Elisabeth of Valois

Elisabeth of Valois
Elisabeth of Valois
	Portrait by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz
Queen consort of Spain
Tenure	22 June 1559 – 3 October 1568
Born	2 April 1546; Palace of Fontainebleau, France
Died	3 October 1568 (aged 22); Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Spain
Burial	El Escorial
Spouse	Philip II of Spain (m. 1559)
Issue; more...	Isabella Clara Eugenia, Lady of the Netherlands; Catalina Micaela, Duchess of Savoy;
House	Valois-Angoulême
Father	Henry II of France
Mother	Catherine de' Medici

Elisabeth of France, or Elisabeth of Valois (Spanish: Isabel de Valois; French: Élisabeth de Valois) (2 April 1546^[1] – 3 October 1568), was Queen of Spain as the third wife of Philip II of Spain. She was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.^[2]

^ Chang, Leah Redmond (2023). Young Queens (First ed.). London: Bloomsbury. p. 421. ISBN 978-1-5266-1342-4. Many historians have cited the year as 1545, but [...] common practice at the time usually placed the new year at Easter (rather than 1 January). Elisabeth's birth date thus fell in the year 1546 according to modern dating practices. This date is corroborated by other correspondence.
^ Knecht 1999, p. 34.