1512 in France

Events from the year 1512 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XII

Events

 * Ongoing since 1508 – War of the League of Cambrai
 * 10 August – The Battle of Saint-Mathieu, a naval battle between an English fleet of 25 ships and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships.

Births



 * 15 January – Robert IV de La Marck, Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and a Marshal of France (d. 1556)

Full date missing

 * Thomas Sébillet, jurist, essayist and neo-Platonist grammarian (d. 1589)
 * Charles de Sainte-Marthe, Protestant and theologian (d. 1555)
 * Antonio Lafreri, engraver, cartographer and publisher (d. 1577)

Deaths



 * January – Jean Braconnier, singer and composer
 * July – Gilles Mureau, composer and singer (born c. 1450)
 * 13 December – Emery d'Amboise, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1434)
 * Unknown – Antoine Vérard, publisher, bookmaker and bookseller (born before 1485)