You can't be too shrewd, too calculating is not good, sometimes people are not as good as heaven. Just like King Louis XII of France, his little calculation was too shrewd, he inherited the throne of his brother-in-law, abandoned his wife, married his brother's wife as queen, and finally after he broke, the throne fell into someone else's house.
Louis XII was the son of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, and (Mary of Cleves), whose grandfather was Louis I, the younger brother of King Charles VI of France. After his father's death in 1465, Louis XII succeeded to the title of Duke of Orléans.
At the age of 14, Louis XII married Princess Jeanne, daughter of then King Louis XI of France. This was the marriage of King Louis XI, and for Louis XII it was an arranged marriage, and he was very unhappy because Princess Jeanne had a disability, a hunchback, and a severe curvature and deformation of her spine.
Princess Jeanne loved Louis XII very much, but Louis XII did not love Princess Jeanne and was very indifferent to Princess Jeanne. However, when Louis XII was imprisoned for a mistake, Princess Jeanne tried to rescue louis XII and Louis XII was released.
In 1498, Princess Jeanne's younger brother Charles VIII died. Charles VIII and his wife, Queen Anne, had eight children, none of whom survived. The throne was thus succeeded by his distant relative Louis XII.
France did not have the position of empress dowager, and Queen Anne was ready to return to her mother's house to remarry. Louis XII shouted, "Don't go, marry me." Queen Anne said, "You still have a wife!" How do I marry you? Louis XII said, "I divorced and dumped the yellow-faced woman." ”
At this time, Queen Anne was only 21 years old, young and beautiful, and her dowry was the territory of Brittany. Queen Anne was the daughter of the Duke, and her place in Brittany did not comply with the Salic Code, so she could inherit her father's titles and property.
France, on the other hand, was bound by the Salic Code, so that Princess Jeanne could not inherit the throne and property of her father and brother, and her husband Louis XII inherited the French throne as a distant relative. Princess Jeanne could have been queen, but Louis XII wanted to divorce her.
Of course, Princess Jeanne did not agree to the divorce, but Louis XII was king, and he announced princess Jeanne's physical disability, saying that he and Princess Jeanne could not share sex. Princess Jeanne found a witness to explain that he was lying, and he said that Princess Jeanne had seduced him with witchcraft before completing the intercourse.
The end result was that Louis XII successfully divorced, married Queen Anne, and had many children. But none of these children lived long, and only two daughters grew up. France did not allow princesses to succeed to the throne. So Louis XII could only marry his eldest daughter Claude to his cousin François, hoping that his nephew would inherit the throne and his daughter would become queen.
(Princess Jeanne, who had been abandoned by Louis XII, died of illness a few years after her divorce.) ）
Queen Anne, who had many children, died of illness at the age of 37, and Louis XII, who had been widowed for less than a year, married Princess Mary Tudor of England. Princess Mary was only 18 years old and Louis XII was 52 years old. Louis XII's heart was again lit up with the hope of having a son, and he tried to make a man in bed with Princess Mary.
Three months later, Louis XII died, unsuccessful in creating a man, and he gave his life. His nephew and son-in-law François I succeeded to the throne of France, and his daughter Princess Claude became Queen of France.
François I and Princess Claude had three sons, the second son Henry II, who succeeded to the throne, and the other sons died childless. Henry II and the queen had a group of sons, three of whom succeeded to the throne, but unfortunately none of the three kings had legitimate descendants, only Charles IX had illegitimate sons but could not inherit the throne, and later the throne was inherited by his distant relative Henry IV.
Henry IV's wife was Queen Margot, who was the daughter of Henry II and the great-granddaughter of Louis XII. Henry IV divorced Queen Margot, married and had children, and the later King of France was not related to Louis XII.
Look closely, didn't Henry IV do the same thing as Louis XII did? It is just that Henry IV did not marry his brother-in-law's wife, but married another family. This is really a worldly newspaper. Louis XII received his retribution.
Louis XII's abacus was too clever, he won the French throne of his brother-in-law, and he wanted his brother-in-law's wife to marry Brittany, and in the end these two things belonged to someone else. If he had not married his brother-in-law's wife, Queen Anne, and lived a good life with his wife, Princess Jeanne, he might have offspring, and perhaps after his wife died of illness, he would have married another queen and had given birth to a son.