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Louise of Savoy

Mother of Francis I, Regent of France (1476–1531)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was politically active and served as the regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529, during the absence of her son.

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“Louise of Savoy” enters the record as mother of Francis I, Regent of France (1476–1531). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louise, Savoy and Mother can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louise of Savoy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.