Mary Tudor (18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was Queen consort of France from 9 October 1514 to 1 January 1515 as the wife of King Louis XII of France. Mary was the daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the sister of King Henry VIII, and she later remarried to her brother's close friend, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
Biography[]
Mary Tudor was born in Sheen Palace, London, Surrey, England on 18 March 1496, the daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the sister of Margaret Tudor, Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Henry VIII of England. From 1507 to 1513, Mary was betrothed to Philip I of Castile's son, the future Emperor Charles V, but the betrothal was called off after Cardinal Thomas Wolsey signed a peace treaty between France and England. She instead married King Louis XII of France in 1514, and they were married for less than three months, as Louis died in January 1515. She was allowed to marry who she liked after the end of her unhappy marriage, and she married the King's friend Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk in secret in 1515. The King initially banished Suffolk after William Compton was sent by Suffolk to inform the King of the marriage, and the King then banished Mary from London as well. However, he came to allow Suffolk to return after Suffolk beat him in an arm-wrestling match, and Anne and Suffolk's marriage was legitimized in 1528. She died of complications from the sweating sickness in 1533.