1558 in France

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Events from the year 1558 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry II^[1]

Events

• 1 to 8 January – The siege of Calais
• 17 April to 23 July – The siege of Thionville
• 13 July – The Battle of Gravelines

Births

• 9 September – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, soldier and prominent member of the Catholic League (died 1602).^[2]
• 8 December – François de La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal (died 1645)
• 9 December – André du Laurens, physician (died 1609)
• 30 December – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, a marshal of France and peer of France (died 1652)

Full date missing

• Françoise de Cezelli, war hero during the French Wars of Religion (died 1615)
• Cardin Le Bret, jurist (died 1655)
• Fronton du Duc, Jesuit theologian (died 1624)
• Guillaume de Steenhuys, noble magistrate and diplomat (died 1638)

Deaths

• 26 April – Jean Fernel, physician (born 1497)^[3]

Full date missing

• Côme Clausse, notary and secretary of the king, Secretary of State (born c. 1530)
• André Tiraqueau, jurist and politician (born 1488)
• Guillaume Bochetel, statesman and diplomat
• Claude d'Urfé, French royal official (born 1501)
• Jean Maynier, public official, First President of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence (born 1495)
• Clément Janequin, composer (born c. 1485)
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poet (born c. 1491)

See also

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