Louise of Savoy (11 September 1476 â 22 September 1531) 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 1525â1526 and in 1529, during the absence of her son.
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đ Louise of Savoy in the context of Francis I of France
Francis I (French: François I; Middle French: Françoys; 12 September 1494 â 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of AngoulĂȘme, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son.
A prodigious patron of the arts, Francis promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa, which Francis had acquired. Francis's reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power 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.