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Article: Anne of Brittany (1477–1514; Ruled 1491–1498, 1499–1514)
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ANNE OF BRITTANY (1477
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1514; ruled 1491
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1498, 1499
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1514)
ANNE OF BRITTANY
(1477
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1514; ruled 1491
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1498, 1499
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1514), queen of France. Duchess of Brittany and twice queen of France, Anne was the daughter of Francis II (1435
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1488) of Brittany and Marguerite de Foix. She was eleven when a French army defeated her father in the Fools' War in August 1488. Francis died a month after, and Anne inherited the duchy as the elder of his two daughters. Her hand in marriage became a valuable prize. In hopes of preventing the duchy from falling under direct French rule, Archduke Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman emperor; ruled 1493
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1519), ...