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(1499–1524), French queen consort, born in Romorantin; eldest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne of Brittany; was originally promised in marriage to Charles of Austria (the future emperor Charles V); Blois county, Burgundy, and Brittany also included in treaty by Anne in order to keep Brittany out of French hands; treaty broken and Claude betrothed instead to the future Francis I of France (1506); inherited Brittany on mother's death (1514) and married Francis same year; Francis acceded to throne 1515; Brittany became part of France.