title: 1558 in France
text: # 1558 in France
  
  Events from the year 1558 in France
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Henry II
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1 to 8 January – The siege of Calais
  * 17 April to 23 July – The siege of Thionville
  * 13 July – The Battle of Gravelines
  
  ## Births
  
  * 9 September – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, soldier and prominent member of the Catholic League (died 1602).
  * 8 December – François de La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal (died 1645)
  * 9 December – André du Laurens, physician (died 1609)
  * 30 December – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, a marshal of France and peer of France (died 1652)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Françoise de Cezelli, war hero during the French Wars of Religion (died 1615)
  * Cardin Le Bret, jurist (died 1655)
  * Fronton du Duc, Jesuit theologian (died 1624)
  * Guillaume de Steenhuys, noble magistrate and diplomat (died 1638)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 26 April – Jean Fernel, physician (born 1497)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Côme Clausse, notary and secretary of the king, Secretary of State (born c. 1530)
  * André Tiraqueau, jurist and politician (born 1488)
  * Guillaume Bochetel, statesman and diplomat
  * Claude d'Urfé, French royal official (born 1501)
  * Jean Maynier, public official, First President of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence (born 1495)
  * Clément Janequin, composer (born c. 1485)
  * Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poet (born c. 1491)
  