| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What title did Francis try to receive, in 1519, but lost out to Charles King of Spain? | Holy Roman Emperor | 100%
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| When was he born? | 12 September 1494 | 50%
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| When did he become King of France? | 1 January 1515 | 50%
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| When did Francis I die? | 31 March 1547 | 50%
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| How many languages could Francis I speak? | 5 (French, Hebrew, Italian, Latin and Spanish) | 50%
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| What battle led to the imprisonment of Francis in 1525? | Battle of Pavia | 50%
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| Where was he born? | Cognac, Aquitaine, France | 50%
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| Who was his first legitimate son? | Francis, (Duke of Brittany) | 50%
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| What event resulted in the desecration of Francis', his mother's and wife's tombs, 246 years later, in 1793? | French Revolution | 50%
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| Who succeeded Francis after his death? | Henry II | 50%
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| What famous house was he born into? | House of Valois | 50%
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| What port city was founded in 1517? | Le Havre | 50%
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| What treaty forced Francis to renounce his claims in Italy but was ignored by Francis and the Pope, in 1526? | Treaty of Madrid | 50%
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| When did his first legitimate son die? | 10 August 1536 | 0%
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| What year did the Franco-Ottoman alliance begin? | 1536 | 0%
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| When was his first legitimate son born? | 28 February 1518 | 0%
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| When was his second legitimate son born? | 31 March 1519 | 0%
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| What was the first battle in the fourth Italian wars (1521-1526) in 1521? | Battle of Bicocca | 0%
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| Who was his father? | Charles, Count of Angoulême | 0%
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| Who did he marry in 1514? | Claude of Brittany | 0%
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| Who was his second wife, who he married on 4 July 1530? | Eleanor of Austria | 0%
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| What was the name of the meeting between him and Henry VIII of England, in 1520? | Field of the Cloth of Gold | 0%
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| Who died, in 1535, that sparked the Italian Wars of 1536-1538? | Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan | 0%
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| Who was his second legitimate son? | Henry, Duke of Orléans | 0%
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| Who was exchanged, for Francis to return to Paris? | his sons, Francis and Henry | 0%
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| What leading Protestant reformer did Francis exile, in 1530? | John Calvin | 0%
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| What league did he join that was to reduce Charles V's dominance in Italy, in 1526? | League of Cormac | 0%
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| What famous Italian polymath did Francis befriend in the last years of their life? | Leonardo da Vinci | 0%
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| Who was his mother? | Louise of Savoy | 0%
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| Who was his predecessor? | Louis XII | 0%
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| What French coastal city, which cathedral turned into a mosque, did Francis let the Ottomans winter in 1543? | Toulon | 0%
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| What treaty ended the wars of above and freed Francis' sons, in 1529, that was negotiated by Francis' mother and Charles' aunt? | Treaty of Cambrai | 0%
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| What treaty attempted but failed at unifying of the Christian Kingdoms of Western Europe against the Ottoman threat, in 1518? | Treaty of London | 0%
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| What treaty did Francis sign with Charles V that gave France the Duchy of Milan but removed French claims to Kingdom of Naples, in 1516? | Treaty of Noyon | 0%
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| What truce ended the Italian Wars of 1536-1538? | Truce of Nice | 0%
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