On 19 January 1559, at the age of 11, she married Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The marriage was arranged as a symbolic union of peace between France and Lorraine, after Charles III had spent his childhood as a hostage at the French royal court, and completed after the Treaty of Chateau-Cambresis. Claude departed to Lorraine with her spouse in late 1559, shortly before the departure of her sister Elisabeth to Spain and her aunt Marguerite to Savoy.
Brantôme gave the following description of her:
"In her beauty she resembled her mother, in her knowledge and kindness she resembled her aunt; and the people of Lorraine found her ever kind as long as she lived, as I myself have seen when I went to that country; and after her death they found much to say of her. In fact, by her death that land was filled with regrets, and M. de Lorraine mourned her so much that, though he was young when widowed of her, he would not marry again, saying he could never find her like, though could he do so he would remarry, not being disinclined. [...] In short, she was a true daughter of France, having good mind and ability, which she proved by seconding wisely and ably her husband, M. de Lorraine, in the government of his seigneuries and principalities."
House of: Valois-Angoulême
On 19 January 1559, at the age of 11, she married Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The marriage was arranged as a symbolic union of peace between France and Lorraine, after Charles III had spent his childhood as a hostage at the French royal court, and completed after the Treaty of Chateau-Cambresis. Claude departed to Lorraine with her spouse in late 1559, shortly before the departure of her sister Elisabeth to Spain and her aunt Marguerite to Savoy.
Brantôme gave the following description of her:
"In her beauty she resembled her mother, in her knowledge and kindness she resembled her aunt; and the people of Lorraine found her ever kind as long as she lived, as I myself have seen when I went to that country; and after her death they found much to say of her. In fact, by her death that land was filled with regrets, and M. de Lorraine mourned her so much that, though he was young when widowed of her, he would not marry again, saying he could never find her like, though could he do so he would remarry, not being disinclined. [...] In short, she was a true daughter of France, having good mind and ability, which she proved by seconding wisely and ably her husband, M. de Lorraine, in the government of his seigneuries and principalities."
House of: Valois-Angoulême
Family Members
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Diane de France
1538–1618
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Francois II
1544–1560
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Elisabeth de Valois
1545–1568
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Louis de France
1549–1550
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Charles IX de Valois
1550–1574
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Henri III de France
1551–1589
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Marguerite de Valois
1553–1615
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François Hercule d'Alencon
1555–1584
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Jeanne de France
1556–1556
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Victoire de France
1556–1556
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Henri de Saint-Rémi
1557–1621
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Henri II "le Bon" de Lorraine
1563–1624
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Christina of Lorraine
1565–1637
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Cardinal Charles de Lorraine
1567–1607
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Antoinette de Lorraine
1568–1610
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Anne de Lorraine
1569–1576
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François II de Lorraine
1572–1632
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Catherine de Lorraine
1573–1648
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Claude de Lorraine
1574–1576
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Elisabeth Renata von Lothringen
1574–1635
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