He had achieved a brilliant and a difficult marriage.

In Europe, and within his own household, he had made a display of power and independence.

In order to espouse Anne of Brittany, he had sent back Marguerite of Austria to her father.

He had gone in person and withdrawn from prison his cousin Louis of Orleans, whom his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, had put there; and so far from having got embroiled with her, he saw all the royal family reconciled around him.

This was no little success for a young prince of twenty-one.