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Madeleine of Valois

Scottish royal consort

  • Fame53.6
  • Momentum0.1
  • Wikipedia7.8K
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Lived 1520–1537, aged 17
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  • Era
    1520–1537
    Aged 17
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

A French princess who became Queen of Scotland for forty days. Married in January 1537 despite failing health, dead by July — before her first summer in the kingdom ended.

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Madeleine of Valois was born in August 1520, a daughter of the French crown. The Treaty of Rouen bound her future to Scotland's King James V, but French officials balked: she was already visibly unwell. The wedding went ahead anyway at Notre-Dame in January 1537. She crossed to Scotland in May. Six weeks later she was dead, not yet seventeen. The Scots called her the Summer Queen — not for brightness, but for brevity.

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53.6
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Momentum0.1
Historical21.3
Now attention0.7
Source confidence60.0
Completeness50.0
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence