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  1. King of France from 1483, when he succeeded
  2. his father, Louis XI. In 1494 he
  3. unsuccessfully tried to claim the Neapolitan
  4. crown, and when he entered Naples 1495 was
  5. forced to withdraw by a coalition of Milan,
  6. Venice, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire. He
  7. defeated them at Fornovo, but lost Naples. He
  8. died while preparing a second expedition.
  9.