1544 in France

Events from the year 1544 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Francis I

Events

• April 11– Battle of Ceresole
• 2 to 4 June – Battle of Serravalle
• July - August; siege of St. Dizier, during the Italian War of 1542–46.
• September 18 - The Treaty of Crépy is signed between representatives of King Francis I and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

Births

• January 19 - Francis II of France, King of France and Scotland (by marriage) from 1559 to 1560.(d.1560)

Full date missing

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, poet (d.1590).

Deaths

June 14 – Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, French aristocrat and general(b.1489).

Full date missing

• Clément Marot, poet (b. 1496)
• Charles du Dros, governor
• Bonaventure des Périers, writer (b. c.1510)
• Pierre Chambiges, mason and architect
• René of Châlon, Prince of Orange and stadtholder in the Low Countries

See also

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