Henry Tudor, Heretic and Father of Kings
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Section Fifty-Three - 1559
“Prince Antoine, eldest son of Prince Henri and Princess Christine, would die at age seventeen from cholera. It is believed that Prince Antoine contracted cholera from the unclean water he drank while consorting with the lower classes that he kept company with. His death would herald a great period of mourning for Navarre, for while not particularly loved by the upper class, Prince Antoine was adored by the lower class.
While most of the attention was taken up by Prince Henri and Princess Christine, this would be a particularly hard year for King Henri Tudor: he had just lost his eldest grandson and his beloved wife was ailing. While King Henri and Queen Jeanne Sophie didn’t have the loud demonstrate marriage that their son did, no historians contest the depth of their relationship. The two had co-ruled for almost forty years by this point and the court documents are full of small indicators of the strength of their marriage. One set of council meeting minutes record that King Henri arranged for an ambassador that Queen Jeanne Sophie acutely despised to arrive while Queen Jeanne Sophie was away so that she wouldn’t have to interact with him.
But, believed to be triggered by her grandson’s death, Queen Jeanne Sophie’s health began to deteriorate in fifteen sixty.”
“Antoine Tudor’s death would spark one of the largest and longest arguments between Prince Henri Tudor the Younger and Christina Oldenburg. Both blamed the other for the death of their favorite child. Not even the birth of the daughter, named Anne, would reconcile the two. In fact, Prince Henri Tudor would not even see his daughter until after she had been placed in the royal nursery and he would make a point to visit when Princess Christina was not there.
The placed an immense strain on their surviving son, Christian Tudor. The eight-year old prince suddenly found himself, not only much closer to the throne of Navarre, but also functioning as a go-between for his parents.”
While most of the attention was taken up by Prince Henri and Princess Christine, this would be a particularly hard year for King Henri Tudor: he had just lost his eldest grandson and his beloved wife was ailing. While King Henri and Queen Jeanne Sophie didn’t have the loud demonstrate marriage that their son did, no historians contest the depth of their relationship. The two had co-ruled for almost forty years by this point and the court documents are full of small indicators of the strength of their marriage. One set of council meeting minutes record that King Henri arranged for an ambassador that Queen Jeanne Sophie acutely despised to arrive while Queen Jeanne Sophie was away so that she wouldn’t have to interact with him.
But, believed to be triggered by her grandson’s death, Queen Jeanne Sophie’s health began to deteriorate in fifteen sixty.”
Patrick Wendal, “The First Navarrese Tudor King”
“Antoine Tudor’s death would spark one of the largest and longest arguments between Prince Henri Tudor the Younger and Christina Oldenburg. Both blamed the other for the death of their favorite child. Not even the birth of the daughter, named Anne, would reconcile the two. In fact, Prince Henri Tudor would not even see his daughter until after she had been placed in the royal nursery and he would make a point to visit when Princess Christina was not there.
The placed an immense strain on their surviving son, Christian Tudor. The eight-year old prince suddenly found himself, not only much closer to the throne of Navarre, but also functioning as a go-between for his parents.”
Ephraim Pollock, “Henry and Christina, They May Have Tried to Kill Each Other”
Section Fifty-Four - 1559
“The Awakened Church of England was formed in fifteen fifty-nine. It echoed many of the same organizational qualities of the Navarrese and Danish Awakened Churches. The head of the Awakened Church was nominally God, but the church was led by a Deacon. The first Deacon of the English Awakened Church was Thomas Bilney. Thomas Bilney, one of Queen Kathryn’s many Toms, was one of the earliest Awakeners as he had had his own experience with the Bible that echoed Prince Henry’s.
As with the Danish Awakened Church, the English Awakened Church was not beholden to the Navarrese Awakened Church nor did they always agree on doctrine. [1] Membership in the Awakened Church of England would swell as Prince Henry put his full support into the movement.”
[1] It would not be until 1792 that the twenty-three Awakened Churches would agree to unification of Doctrine and that all further doctrinal decisions would be made by a council of Deacons.
“Thomas Cranmer would continue to hold the position of Archbishop of Canterbury even after he officially joined the organized English Awakened Church solidifying the position as one under the control of Crown of England not the Catholic Church. The appointment of Archbishop of Canterbury would become a nondenominational national position where the current holder of the commission would act as the religious advisor to the throne and spiritual leader of the nation.
The Pope would decide against objecting, apparently due to considering England something of a lost cause.”
“Prince Henry’s activity in the English Awakened Church sparked a change in his writings and composings. Previously Prince Henry had composed several songs, the most well-known would be Lovely, Lovely Anne,after his officially joining of the Awakened Church Prince Henry would compose several beautiful hymns. While none of his hymns would reach the popularity of Lovely, Lovely Anne, the sheer number of hymns composed ensure that everyone has sung a Prince Henry song. The more popular hymns include the Christmas carol Starlit Stable and the musical arrangement of Isaiah 54.”
As with the Danish Awakened Church, the English Awakened Church was not beholden to the Navarrese Awakened Church nor did they always agree on doctrine. [1] Membership in the Awakened Church of England would swell as Prince Henry put his full support into the movement.”
Paul Eltham, “The English Awakened Church”
[1] It would not be until 1792 that the twenty-three Awakened Churches would agree to unification of Doctrine and that all further doctrinal decisions would be made by a council of Deacons.
“Thomas Cranmer would continue to hold the position of Archbishop of Canterbury even after he officially joined the organized English Awakened Church solidifying the position as one under the control of Crown of England not the Catholic Church. The appointment of Archbishop of Canterbury would become a nondenominational national position where the current holder of the commission would act as the religious advisor to the throne and spiritual leader of the nation.
The Pope would decide against objecting, apparently due to considering England something of a lost cause.”
Matheo Henrikson, “The 1500’s Was A Crazy Century, and It Was Mostly the Tudors’ Fault”
“Prince Henry’s activity in the English Awakened Church sparked a change in his writings and composings. Previously Prince Henry had composed several songs, the most well-known would be Lovely, Lovely Anne,after his officially joining of the Awakened Church Prince Henry would compose several beautiful hymns. While none of his hymns would reach the popularity of Lovely, Lovely Anne, the sheer number of hymns composed ensure that everyone has sung a Prince Henry song. The more popular hymns include the Christmas carol Starlit Stable and the musical arrangement of Isaiah 54.”
Rachel Rowell, “Father of the Reawakening, and a Good Father”
Henry gets to be a Tudor era Charles Wesley! Hurray! This makes the Methodist in me very happy!
I'm glad you are enjoying it.
For reference I think Isaiah 54 sounds a lot like this
Section Fifty-Five - 1561
“The pope would grant a dispensation for Arthur Habsburg, son of Maria Tudor and Ferdinand I, to marry his brother’s widow, Princess Margaret Stewart of Scotland and Ireland. Ferdinand I had been in negotiations with his uncle, Ferdinand III, for his daughter Beatrice Trastamara, but Arthur Habsburg appears to have asked that he be allowed to marry Margaret Stewart upon his brother death.
The two had apparently grown close while Charles Habsburg had been at war, sharing a similar attitudes and preferences.”
“Maria Tudor had chosen her cousin’s daughter as her eldest son’s bride due to Margaret Stewart’s Tudor ancestry. With Arthur Habsburg inheriting from his brother his mother’s hopes for the English throne, he also inherited his brother’s bride.
Opinions conflict on the reason for the marriage of Arthur Habsburg and Margaret Stewart, many historians site the documents that indicate that Arthur requested the marriage, but many believe that Arthur Habsburg requested the marriage at the prompting of his mother. The reason for the postulation is the lack of any romantic actions between the two. In fact, the two wouldn’t spend any significant time together until the Third Succession War.”
The two had apparently grown close while Charles Habsburg had been at war, sharing a similar attitudes and preferences.”
Clark Underwood, “The Habsburgs and the English Throne”
“Maria Tudor had chosen her cousin’s daughter as her eldest son’s bride due to Margaret Stewart’s Tudor ancestry. With Arthur Habsburg inheriting from his brother his mother’s hopes for the English throne, he also inherited his brother’s bride.
Opinions conflict on the reason for the marriage of Arthur Habsburg and Margaret Stewart, many historians site the documents that indicate that Arthur requested the marriage, but many believe that Arthur Habsburg requested the marriage at the prompting of his mother. The reason for the postulation is the lack of any romantic actions between the two. In fact, the two wouldn’t spend any significant time together until the Third Succession War.”
Oliver Gotham, “Arthur and the Throne of England, Scotland, and Ireland”
Section Fifty-Six - 1560 & 1561
“Late in 1560 Cesare Borgia would arrange the marriage of his eldest son and heir, Alessandro Borgia, [1] to Prince Henry’s granddaughter, Anne de Rohan. Cesare Borgia had attempted to arrange the marriage of Alessandro to a daughter or granddaughter of Prince Henry multiple times over the last two decades.
Despite the strong relationship between Cesare and Prince Henry, Prince Henry would refuse to betroth any of his daughters to Alessandro Borgia due to Cesare Borgia’s attitudes toward religion and marriage. Prince Henry appeared to have disapproved of Cesare’s tendency to treating the Catholic Church as a political endeavor not a spiritual endeavor as well as his illegitimate children. What’s more Alessandro had several illegitimate children himself.
What’s interesting is Cesare Borgia’s refusal to consider a bride not of Prince Henry’s line for his son. This decision has sparked several rumors about Prince Henry and Cesare Borgia’s relationship that continue to today.”
“The only child of the eldest daughter of King Henri, Anne de Rohan, married Alessandro Borgia early in fifteen sixty-one. Anne de Rohan was the fourth decedent of Prince Henry that was considered for Alessandro Borgia. We have records indicating that Elizabeth Tudor, Cecily Tudor, Charlotte Tudor were all considered and set aside for various reasons.
At age seventeen, Anne de Rohan would travel to Italy. There she would be known as Anna Borgia.”
“The suggested reasons for Cesare Borgia’s choice for his son’s bride vary from the risqué to the absurd. In all probability Cesare Borgia predicted the rising of the Tudors and so sought them out as allies. And if he did predict the Tudor’s rise to power, he was right; by 1560 two countries were led by a Tudor monarch, and for two more the consort of the monarch was a Tudor. The other commonly accepted theory is that Cesare’s admiration of Prince Henry guided him to seek a bride with similar drive.
But, is it possible that the historians are wrong? And that the two most accepted reasons are wrong? If so could there be more to Cesare Borgia and Prince Henry Tudor’s relationship that what was known at the time?”
Despite the strong relationship between Cesare and Prince Henry, Prince Henry would refuse to betroth any of his daughters to Alessandro Borgia due to Cesare Borgia’s attitudes toward religion and marriage. Prince Henry appeared to have disapproved of Cesare’s tendency to treating the Catholic Church as a political endeavor not a spiritual endeavor as well as his illegitimate children. What’s more Alessandro had several illegitimate children himself.
What’s interesting is Cesare Borgia’s refusal to consider a bride not of Prince Henry’s line for his son. This decision has sparked several rumors about Prince Henry and Cesare Borgia’s relationship that continue to today.”
William Richards, “Italy and the Awakening”
“The only child of the eldest daughter of King Henri, Anne de Rohan, married Alessandro Borgia early in fifteen sixty-one. Anne de Rohan was the fourth decedent of Prince Henry that was considered for Alessandro Borgia. We have records indicating that Elizabeth Tudor, Cecily Tudor, Charlotte Tudor were all considered and set aside for various reasons.
At age seventeen, Anne de Rohan would travel to Italy. There she would be known as Anna Borgia.”
Queenie Evens, “Anna and Alessandro”
“The suggested reasons for Cesare Borgia’s choice for his son’s bride vary from the risqué to the absurd. In all probability Cesare Borgia predicted the rising of the Tudors and so sought them out as allies. And if he did predict the Tudor’s rise to power, he was right; by 1560 two countries were led by a Tudor monarch, and for two more the consort of the monarch was a Tudor. The other commonly accepted theory is that Cesare’s admiration of Prince Henry guided him to seek a bride with similar drive.
But, is it possible that the historians are wrong? And that the two most accepted reasons are wrong? If so could there be more to Cesare Borgia and Prince Henry Tudor’s relationship that what was known at the time?”
Hanna Iverson, “The Two Princes”
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I'm glad you're enjoying it; Cesar Borgia just sort of snuck into the story without my noticing it. By the time I had an idea of what I wanted to do with him, I'd already passed that time period. I'll probably do a flashback at some point.
Section Fifty-Seven - 1561 & 1562
“Late in 1561 L'autre Henri, King of France, would be forced to acknowledge that he successor would probably not be his only living son Charles Valois. The sixteen-year-old Dauphin was in frail health and no one really thought he would live or be able to have a son with his Scottish bride. If L'autre Henri were to outlive his son, his traditional heir would be his nephew Louis Valois.
The twenty-one-year-old Prince of the Blood had recently married Helena Habsburg. This was the latest gambit in Louis Valois’s movement to move France away from its alliances with Navarre and England toward more traditionally Catholic countries.
The likelihood of Louis Valois becoming the next King of France greatly concerned L'autre Henri. L'autre Henri had spent much of his reign strengthening the ties between France, England, and Navarre. It was in the early months of 1562, that L'autre Henri began speaking of his daughter, Princess Margaret Valois as if she was in the line of succession. [1]
This was met by not quite as much commotion as would have been expected and the twelve-year-old Princess might have been the Queen of France if not for L'autre Henri death in March of 1562.”
[1] France strictly abided by Salic law, women could not inherit the crown.
“Charles IX Valois came to the throne of France knowing he wasn’t long for the world. He had always been of ill health, but upon becoming King, the symptoms worsened. He had often experienced a lack of energy and appetite, but by May of 1562 would suffer from regular vomiting, muscle cramps, diarrhea, and discoloration of the skin. We now believe that Charles IX suffered from Addison’s disease. Another symptom of Addison’s disease, reduced libido, could be a contributing factor to Princess Marie Stuart’s childlessness.”
“A quiet and unobtrusive boy, many expected Charles IX to be a quiet and unobtrusive King. And while it can be said that Charles IX was quiet, he was certainly not unobtrusive. The young king appears to have held firm on the subject of succession and spent the majority of his reign shoring up his sister, Princess Margaret, as his heir.
Privileges and favors were granted to several important French nobles…”
The twenty-one-year-old Prince of the Blood had recently married Helena Habsburg. This was the latest gambit in Louis Valois’s movement to move France away from its alliances with Navarre and England toward more traditionally Catholic countries.
The likelihood of Louis Valois becoming the next King of France greatly concerned L'autre Henri. L'autre Henri had spent much of his reign strengthening the ties between France, England, and Navarre. It was in the early months of 1562, that L'autre Henri began speaking of his daughter, Princess Margaret Valois as if she was in the line of succession. [1]
This was met by not quite as much commotion as would have been expected and the twelve-year-old Princess might have been the Queen of France if not for L'autre Henri death in March of 1562.”
Charlotte Stanton, “L'autre Henri”
[1] France strictly abided by Salic law, women could not inherit the crown.
“Charles IX Valois came to the throne of France knowing he wasn’t long for the world. He had always been of ill health, but upon becoming King, the symptoms worsened. He had often experienced a lack of energy and appetite, but by May of 1562 would suffer from regular vomiting, muscle cramps, diarrhea, and discoloration of the skin. We now believe that Charles IX suffered from Addison’s disease. Another symptom of Addison’s disease, reduced libido, could be a contributing factor to Princess Marie Stuart’s childlessness.”
Professor Laura Anderson, “The Other Margaret Stewart”
“A quiet and unobtrusive boy, many expected Charles IX to be a quiet and unobtrusive King. And while it can be said that Charles IX was quiet, he was certainly not unobtrusive. The young king appears to have held firm on the subject of succession and spent the majority of his reign shoring up his sister, Princess Margaret, as his heir.
Privileges and favors were granted to several important French nobles…”
Leon Davenport, “Charles the Ninth of France”
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I'm reasonably sure that the Guises fancied themselves as possible rulers of France in the Original Timeline sometime round about the point the timeline has reached.
Have different dynastic marriages in this timeline changed that?
Have different dynastic marriages in this timeline changed that?
Louis Valois’s mother is Louise of Guise, so the Guises are backing up Louis
Helena of Austria is the granddaughter of Catherine of Aragon, right? Then she will squash the french princess.
Helena is Catherine’s granddaughter. Mary/Maria Tudor is her mother.
And remember Marie Stuart is currently the French Queen and decdended from Margaret Tudor. Can’t count her out just yet
Section Fifty-Eight - 1562
“To strengthen his sister’s position as his preferred heir, Charles IX would betroth Princess Margaret Valois to Prince Charles Stuart, Duke of Ross. The twenty-two-year-old prince would travel to France early in May of 1562 to meet his betrothed. Prince Charles was charming and charismatic and did much to strengthen Princess Margaret’s position though she still hadn’t been named Dauphine.”
“Is history to repeat itself? Will we suffer as England has suffered? A catholic monarch set aside for a Stuart backed queen? Do all the Dukes of Ross have some ability to make queens?”
“It is possible Charles IX would have succeeded in seeing his sister named Dauphine. She was a singularly exceptional Princess, skilled in all the things princesses were supposed to be able to do, and her husband-to-be was all that could be asked for in a king. If Charles IX could have had a little more time to get the French people used to the idea, France might have had its first reigning Queen. But, like his father, Charles IX ran out of time.”
“Charles IX died July 26th, 1562. At his death things began to really happen. Princess Margaret and Prince Charles, on site in Paris, would quickly marry and Princess Margaret would be smuggled to Scotland and safety, leaving Charles Stuart, claiming to be Charles X, to lead their forces. Prince Louis, claiming to be Louis XIII, would connect with his brother-in-law, Arthur Habsburg, and the Austrian forces that would supplement his army.
There should have been a war, there should have been a long drawn out war. The sides were evenly matched; the Traditionalists [1] had the well-trained Austrian army augmenting their forces and a majority of the population, the Compassionists[2] had almost the entirety of the French army—Charles IX having focused on securing their allegiance—and an heir on the way. This last detail was particularly significant, for Louis Valois had been married to his Habsburg bride for three years and they still didn’t have a child, and here Margaret Stuart is with child after only the wedding night.
There should have been a war, but there wasn’t.”
[1] Louis Valois’s faction was called the Traditionalists due to their support of the traditional Salic law.
[2] Margaret and Charles’s faction was called the Compassionists due to their support of the compassionate treatment of reformers and awakeners.
Professor Laura Anderson, “The Other Margaret Stewart”
“Is history to repeat itself? Will we suffer as England has suffered? A catholic monarch set aside for a Stuart backed queen? Do all the Dukes of Ross have some ability to make queens?”
fragment recovered from a journal dated to be from this period, author unknown
“It is possible Charles IX would have succeeded in seeing his sister named Dauphine. She was a singularly exceptional Princess, skilled in all the things princesses were supposed to be able to do, and her husband-to-be was all that could be asked for in a king. If Charles IX could have had a little more time to get the French people used to the idea, France might have had its first reigning Queen. But, like his father, Charles IX ran out of time.”
Leon Davenport, “Charles the Ninth of France”
“Charles IX died July 26th, 1562. At his death things began to really happen. Princess Margaret and Prince Charles, on site in Paris, would quickly marry and Princess Margaret would be smuggled to Scotland and safety, leaving Charles Stuart, claiming to be Charles X, to lead their forces. Prince Louis, claiming to be Louis XIII, would connect with his brother-in-law, Arthur Habsburg, and the Austrian forces that would supplement his army.
There should have been a war, there should have been a long drawn out war. The sides were evenly matched; the Traditionalists [1] had the well-trained Austrian army augmenting their forces and a majority of the population, the Compassionists[2] had almost the entirety of the French army—Charles IX having focused on securing their allegiance—and an heir on the way. This last detail was particularly significant, for Louis Valois had been married to his Habsburg bride for three years and they still didn’t have a child, and here Margaret Stuart is with child after only the wedding night.
There should have been a war, but there wasn’t.”
Duane Irwin, “Marie Stuart”
[1] Louis Valois’s faction was called the Traditionalists due to their support of the traditional Salic law.
[2] Margaret and Charles’s faction was called the Compassionists due to their support of the compassionate treatment of reformers and awakeners.
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Section Fifty-Nine - 1562 & 1563
“August twenty-eight fifteen sixty-two, the Compassionists’ forces were surrounded and routed. Charles Stuart would be killed in the fighting. The complete and total victory of the Traditionalist and the quickly crowned King Louis XIIIwas due to communications between Marie Stewart, Queen-Dowager of France and Louis Valois that revealed movements and strategies of Charles Stuart. It is unknown if Queen Marie was aware of the way her letters would be used; she had always been rather flightily and appeared to grieve her brother’s death greatly.
The communication between Queen Marie and Louis XIII was the result of an affair between the two that appears to have started before either of their marriages.”
“Marie Stuart first came to France at age thirteen. She appears to have been singularly underwhelmed upon meeting her husband-to-be. Dauphin Charles was a sickly ten-year-old more interested in watching people than parties. Compared to the Dauphin, Louis Valois, then a handsome fifteen-year-old, must have been an attractive alternative.
Many people believed that the Dauphin would not grow old enough to marry Marie Stuart and that his cousin, Louis Valois, would inherit both the position of Dauphin and the Dauphin’s perspective bride.
So, was Marie Stewart’s relationship with Louis Valois a cold calculated attempted to hedge her bets? First trying to ensure that if her husband died she would still be Queen of France, then an attempted to end up on the winning side? Were her letters to Louis Valois just a whimsical teenage girl writing love letters to a paramour, or a calculated risk to ensure the side she favored would win?
For, if she purposefully sabotaged the Compassionists to ensure Louis’s victory, Marie Stuart must have weighed the benefits and consequences very carefully. The consequences of her letters were the denouncement of her home country; she would be banned from ever returning to Scotland and the name Mary was almost completely abandoned in Scotland.
But, because of her actions, Marie Stuart had one of the most charmed lives of the fifteen hundreds. She became the Maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis the Thirteenth and would be granted estates and funds that she herself controlled. She would wield untold power in the French Court. Looking at all she accomplished in her life, it’s hard to believe she unknowingly betrayed her brother. In all likelihood, Marie Stuart made the judgement call and choose the winning side.”
“The Scottish Court was shocked and greatly grieved at the death of Prince Charles Stewart. They would cut practically all ties with France and the Habsburgs, and, due to their disinclination to deal with protestants, most of the rest of Europe. Scotland and Ireland would enter a period of isolation that would only be broken by the Third Succession War.”
“Margaret Valois would spend her pregnancy in the Scottish Court pleading with her brother-in-law for more troops to take back her country. She would go into labor April 20 of 1563. At some point during labor she became unresponsive and the decision was made to surgically remove the baby. The baby, a girl to be named Margaret Stewart, would be successfully delivered, but Margaret Valois would never wake up.”
The communication between Queen Marie and Louis XIII was the result of an affair between the two that appears to have started before either of their marriages.”
A.E. Bell, “Louis XIII”
“Marie Stuart first came to France at age thirteen. She appears to have been singularly underwhelmed upon meeting her husband-to-be. Dauphin Charles was a sickly ten-year-old more interested in watching people than parties. Compared to the Dauphin, Louis Valois, then a handsome fifteen-year-old, must have been an attractive alternative.
Many people believed that the Dauphin would not grow old enough to marry Marie Stuart and that his cousin, Louis Valois, would inherit both the position of Dauphin and the Dauphin’s perspective bride.
So, was Marie Stewart’s relationship with Louis Valois a cold calculated attempted to hedge her bets? First trying to ensure that if her husband died she would still be Queen of France, then an attempted to end up on the winning side? Were her letters to Louis Valois just a whimsical teenage girl writing love letters to a paramour, or a calculated risk to ensure the side she favored would win?
For, if she purposefully sabotaged the Compassionists to ensure Louis’s victory, Marie Stuart must have weighed the benefits and consequences very carefully. The consequences of her letters were the denouncement of her home country; she would be banned from ever returning to Scotland and the name Mary was almost completely abandoned in Scotland.
But, because of her actions, Marie Stuart had one of the most charmed lives of the fifteen hundreds. She became the Maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis the Thirteenth and would be granted estates and funds that she herself controlled. She would wield untold power in the French Court. Looking at all she accomplished in her life, it’s hard to believe she unknowingly betrayed her brother. In all likelihood, Marie Stuart made the judgement call and choose the winning side.”
Duane Irwin, “Marie Stuart”
“The Scottish Court was shocked and greatly grieved at the death of Prince Charles Stewart. They would cut practically all ties with France and the Habsburgs, and, due to their disinclination to deal with protestants, most of the rest of Europe. Scotland and Ireland would enter a period of isolation that would only be broken by the Third Succession War.”
Oliver Gotham, “Arthur and the Throne of England, Scotland, and Ireland”
“Margaret Valois would spend her pregnancy in the Scottish Court pleading with her brother-in-law for more troops to take back her country. She would go into labor April 20 of 1563. At some point during labor she became unresponsive and the decision was made to surgically remove the baby. The baby, a girl to be named Margaret Stewart, would be successfully delivered, but Margaret Valois would never wake up.”
Professor Laura Anderson, “The Other Margaret Stewart”
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Does this mean there are two Queens in the French court? Marie Stuart would have been crowned Queen as Charles's wife.