Sister to King Francis I of France, Marguerite early distinguished herself for her intelligence, diplomacy, and piety. After her marriage to Henri, King of Navarre, their court became a place of shelter for noted reformers such as Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples, Clement Marot, William Farel, Theodore Beza, and John Calvin. Marguerite is remembered for the numerous poems, plays, and stories which she authored, and for which the Sorbonne accused her of heresy, but perhaps her most significant legacies remain in her protection of Gospel preaching and in her daughter, Jeanne.