Louis XII

Also known as: Lewes the twelfe / Louis I, Duke of Orléans · Family: France · Role: king · First appears: Henry VI 29

Life events

1440 · Charles, Duke of Orléans, fathered a son who later became Louis XII.(Henry VI 29)
- With: Charles, Duke of Orléans
- “on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.”
c. 1483 · Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany was killed while jousting in France.(Edward IV 39 · 📍 France)
- With: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany
- “where shortlie after riding by the men of armes, which incountered at the tilt, by Lewes then duke of Orleance, after French king, he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death”

parent: Charles, Duke of Orléans “on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.”
parent: Marie of Cleves “on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.”

with Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (Louis XII killed Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, in a joust.) “where shortlie after riding by the men of armes, which incountered at the tilt, by Lewes then duke of Orleance, after French king, he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death”
enemies with Edward IV “Although king Edward reioised that his businesse came to so good a conclusion with the Scots, yet he was about the same time sore disquieted in his mind towards the French king, whome he now perceiued to haue dallied with him, as touching the agreement of the mariage to be had betwixt the Dolphin and his daughter the ladie Elizabeth.”

married with Joan of France “Of which dissention, Lewes duke of Orleance was the chiefe stirrer, who bicause he had maried ladie Ioane sister to the French king, tooke vpon him aboue other the rule and administration of the whole realme.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.