1558 in France
# 1558 in France

Events from the year 1558 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Henry II

## Events

* 1 to 8 January – The siege of Calais
* 17 April to 23 July – The siege of Thionville
* 13 July – The Battle of Gravelines

## Births

* 9 September – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, soldier and prominent member of the Catholic League (died 1602).
* 8 December – François de La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal (died 1645)
* 9 December – André du Laurens, physician (died 1609)
* 30 December – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, a marshal of France and peer of France (died 1652)

### Full date missing

* Françoise de Cezelli, war hero during the French Wars of Religion (died 1615)
* Cardin Le Bret, jurist (died 1655)
* Fronton du Duc, Jesuit theologian (died 1624)
* Guillaume de Steenhuys, noble magistrate and diplomat (died 1638)

## Deaths

* 26 April – Jean Fernel, physician (born 1497)

### Full date missing

* Côme Clausse, notary and secretary of the king, Secretary of State (born c. 1530)
* André Tiraqueau, jurist and politician (born 1488)
* Guillaume Bochetel, statesman and diplomat
* Claude d'Urfé, French royal official (born 1501)
* Jean Maynier, public official, First President of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence (born 1495)
* Clément Janequin, composer (born c. 1485)
* Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poet (born c. 1491)
