Twenty-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I_of_France" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Francis I of France">Francis, Duke of Brittany</a>, succeeds to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of French monarchs">French throne</a> following the death of his father-in-law, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XII_of_France" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis XII of France">Louis XII</a>.<sup about="#mwt78" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-13" id="mwfg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfw">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt75" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBacon1830">Bacon, James (1830). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5IYwAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA116" id="mwDSE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDSI">The Life and Times of Francis the First, King of France</i></a>. E. Bull. pp.<span id="mwDSM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>116–.</cite><span about="#mwt75" class="Z3988" id="mwDSQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Life+and+Times+of+Francis+the+First%2C+King+of+France&amp;rft.pages=116-&amp;rft.pub=E.+Bull&amp;rft.date=1830&amp;rft.aulast=Bacon&amp;rft.aufirst=James&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5IYwAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA116&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>