Anne of Brittany
Duchess of Brittany and twice Queen of France (1477-1514)
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She was duchess of her own realm at eleven, queen of France twice over, and married off three times to keep Brittany from vanishing into the kingdom that surrounded it. The last sovereign ruler of an independent Brittany spent her life in a high-stakes chess game where every wedding was a treaty and every pregnancy a political act.
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Anne inherited Brittany in 1488 when her father died and she was only eleven, already a prize because her duchy sat wedged between France and the sea. The next year she married Maximilian I of Austria by proxy, but Charles VIII of France launched a military campaign that forced her to renounce it. She married Charles in 1491; none of their children survived early childhood. When he died in 1498, the throne passed to his cousin Louis XII, and Anne—bound by an earlier agreement to secure Brittany's fate—had to marry him too. Louis was devoted, and Anne used the room that gave her to defend her d…
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