El dea May 22 is the day of the year 142 of the Gregorian calendar. Quedan 223 days to finish the year. 'The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness. " Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) - OnPower.org - 337 'Death of Constantine I the Great in his will and leaves the empire, undivided, his three sons Constantine II, Constancio Constancio I and II and their nephews and Anibaliano Dalmacio. 1455 'Victory House of Lancaster York on the First Battle of St. Albano, who began the War of the Two Roses. Francis I of France (Francis and de Valois Angoul me) (Cognac, 12 September 1494 'Rambouillet, 31 March 1547). Son of the Count of Angoul me and Louise of Savoy, ascended the throne on the death of Louis XII, whose daughter had married Claudia.
Will this marriage seven children:
1. Luisa (August 19 of 1515 / 21 September 1517). Engaged briefly to Charles I of Spain.
2. Carlota (23 October 1516 - September 8 1524). Dead rubella. Inspiration to his aunt, Margaret of Angoul me, queen of Navarre's poem "Dialogue in the form of night vision" of a reformist trend.
3. Francis, Duke of Brittany and Delfin (28 February 1518 - August 10 1536).
4. Henry, Duke of Orleans, dolphin and king of France as Henry II (March 31 1519 - July 10 1559). Married to Catherine de Medicis, he would have ten children, including the last three kings of the Valois dynasty (Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III) and Elizabeth, Queen Consort of Castile and Aragon, Claudia, Duchess of Lorraine and Margaret, Queen of France and Navarre.
5. Magdalena (10 August 1520 - September 9 1537). Queen of Scotland as the wife of James V. Died of tuberculosis.
6. Carlos, (January 22 1522 - September 9, 1554). Duke of Angoul me.
7. Margarita (June 5 of 1523 - September 14 1574). Duchess of Berry and Duchess of Savoy, by marriage with the Duke Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy. Louis XV fell from her by her mother Maria Adelaide of Savoy. Margarita was considered briefly for the death of Jane Seymour as a possible bride of Henry VIII.
He led an army of 40,000 men, going to Italy to victory in Marignan, triumph that sealed his power and his glory, but that did not prevent the king fell short of its position, nor as capable as the outside rival is already on it: Carlos I of Spain.
Francis I of landing at the port of Valencia. Oil made in 1876 by the painter Ignacio Pinazo.
Several wars were fought for possession of Italy, the first of which Francis I was defeated and taken prisoner at the Battle of Pavia (1525), being forced to sign the Treaty of Madrid (1526). After a new conflict in 1529, signing a new peace: The Cambrai or the ladies, so called because pact was negotiated and signed by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria, mother and aunt, respectively, of the kings disputants. One of the clauses of this treaty stipulated that Francois I, as a widower, he married the Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal widow. This purely political marriage was held on 5 August 1530 and had no descendants.
Subsequently, in 1538 the truce was signed in Nice, followed in 1544, Peace Cr py, which ended the struggle between Francis I and Charles I. The king introduced in France the foundations of monarchical absolutism and was the protector of the arts and sciences, founded the College of France and the Imprenta Real, ordering the construction of the palace of the Louvre. Governing almost absolute king, not to convene the States General. Lived with great fanfare during his reign.
In his reign, in addition to the wars against Charles I of Spain, began the demonstrations of intolerance towards the Protestants in France (known as Huguenots), which would be the source of the bloody religious wars that devastated the country in later decades. It was succeeded by his son Henry II.


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