Louis XII Becomes King of France
1498
The Orleans duke inherited the throne on Charles VIII's death from a bumped head at the Chateau d'Amboise. He immediately annulled his first marriage, wed Charles VIII's widow Anne of Brittany to keep Brittany French, and prepared to reassert old family claims to Milan. French expansion in Italy was about to resume.
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