Mary Tudor, Queen of France

Mary Tudor
Duchess of Suffolk
Mary_Tudor_queen_of_France
A portrait thought to be of Mary Tudor when she was a teenager by an unknown artist.
Queen consort of France
Tenure9 October 1514 – 1 January 1515
Coronation5 November 1514
Born18 March 1496
Sheen Palace, London, Surrey, Kingdom of England
Died25 June 1533 (aged 37)
Westhorpe Hall, Westhorpe, Suffolk, Kingdom of England
Burial22 July 1533
Spouses
(m. 1514; died 1515)
Issue
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HouseTudor
FatherHenry VII of England
MotherElizabeth of York

Mary Tudor (/ˈtjdər/ TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive infancy.

Following Louis's death, Mary married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Performed secretly in France, the marriage occurred without the consent of Mary's brother Henry VIII. The marriage necessitated the intervention of Thomas Wolsey; Henry eventually pardoned the couple after they paid a large fine. Mary had four children with Suffolk. Through her older daughter, Frances, she was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, the de facto queen of England for nine days in July 1553.


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