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Francis I of France


00:02:03 1 Early life and accession
00:03:46 2 Reign
00:04:57 2.1 Patron of the arts
00:06:23 2.2 Man of letters
00:07:59 2.3 Construction
00:09:14 2.4 Military action
00:15:02 2.5 Relations with the New World and Asia
00:16:34 2.5.1 Americas
00:17:32 2.5.2 Far East Asia
00:18:12 2.5.3 Ottoman Empire
00:19:40 2.6 Implementation of bureaucratic reform
00:20:40 2.7 Religious policies
00:22:42 2.8 Death
00:23:28 2.9 Image
00:24:08 3 Marriage and issue
00:26:21 4 Francis I in films, stage and literature
00:29:48 5 Ancestors
00:29:57 6 See also



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Francis I (French: François Ier) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son. Francis was the ninth king from the House of Valois, the second from the Valois-Orléans branch, and the first from the Valois-Orléans-Angoulême branch.
A prodigious patron of the arts, he initiated the French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work on the Château de Chambord, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired. Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the rise of absolute monarchy in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World. Jacques Cartier and others claimed lands in the Americas for France and paved the way for the expansion of the first French colonial empire.
For his role in the development and promotion of a standardized French language, he became known as le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres (the "Father and Restorer of Letters"). He was also known as François du Grand Nez ("Francis of the Large Nose"), the Grand Colas, and the Roi-Chevalier (the "Knight-King") for his personal involvement in the wars against his great rival the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V.
Following the policy of his predecessors, Francis continued the Italian Wars. The succession of Charles V to the Burgundian Netherlands, the throne of Spain, and his subsequent election as Holy Roman Emperor, meant that France was geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy. In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, he sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. When this was unsuccessful, he formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time.

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