Marguerite de Valois was a Princess of France, the wife of Henri II. She was a member of the House of Valois, the eldest daughter of King Francis I, and sister of King Charles IX. She was also a Duchess of Berry, as wife of Louis I, Duke of Berry. The following biographical information is from Wikipedia:
Marguerite de Valois was a princess of France by birth and a member of the House of Valois by marriage
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She was a daughter of King Francis I and his wife Marie de' Medici. By birth she was an Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Navarre through her marriage to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme. Renée-Christine de Valois was born 10 March 1573 at the Château d'Anjou in Anjou, France.
Marguerite's mother, Queen Marie, died during Marguerite's birth and her father remarried to Charlotte de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
Marguerite became the Duchess consort of Lorraine when she married Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in August 1575. The marriage remained childless. The death in 1584 at Nancy at the age 25 or 26 years old caused by smallpox left Marguerite as well as her family grieving as she had been very close to her sister Marie and her husband Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme who died in 1584 as well .
Marguerite was buried alongside her husband at the Basilique Saint-Denis in Paris.
Her husband's initial testament (written only 3 days before his death) called for his heart to be placed beside hers even though he did not mention this afterwards; she had already been buried with it long before their remains were moved to Saint-Denis in 1631. Marguerite's remains were moved again in 1633 to be placed alongside those of François de Bourbon (her grandson) and his wife Marie de' Medici (her great granddaughter). Her death was felt across France; mourning books were published throughout French society to commemorate her death .
Marguerite left behind three daughters: Françoise-Marie de Bourbon (1577–1656), co-heiress to the Lorraine duchy; Madeleine de Bourbon (1578–1621), who died unmarried; and Anne Marie de Bourbon (1582–1644), who succeeded on
