On this day in 1558 Mary Stuart, also know as Mary Queen of Scots married Dauphin Francis , the son of King Henry II at Notre Dame Cathederal in Paris and he became King Consort of Scotland.
When Mary was 5 King Henry II of France proposed to unite France and Scotland by marrying the young queen to his three-year-old son, the Dauphin Francis. On the promise of French military help and a French dukedom for himself, the Earl of Arran , her guardian ,agreed to the marriage. On 7 July 1548, a Scottish Parliament held at a nunnery near the town agreed to the French marriage treaty. Mary was then taken to France and grew up at the French Court .
On 4 April 1558 just before her marriage,Mary signed a secret agreement bequeathing Scotland and her claim to England to the French crown if she died without issue.
