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How he's grown, if only Francis could see him.
Catherine about Jean in Leaps of Faith


Jean-Philippe is a recurring character in the second, third, fourth of Reign.

Jean is the illegitimate son of Francis II and Lola Narcisse. He was officially claimed by his father in The Lamb and the Slaughter, receiving the title of 1st Baron of Velay. He returned to French Court from English Court in Leaps of Faith, where he had been with his mother when she was Elizabeth's prisoner. Jean is a member of the House of Valois by birth.

Biography[]

Season One[]

In Royal Blood, Jean is conceived when Francis and Lola encounter one another in Paris.

In Dirty Laundry, Lola finds out she's pregnant with Francis' baby. At first she tries to get an abortion but Mary stops her right before the operation is about to begin.

In Slaughter of Innocence, Lola goes into labour.

Season Two[]

In The Plague, the baby boy is being taken care of by his mother through most of the episode, when his father arrives to bring them to safety. His father mostly keeps his distance from him but when he starts to cry and his mother is nowhere to be seen. Francis holds him and decides he can't send him away.

In The Lamb and the Slaughter, the baby is finally christened in a ceremony where he is named Jean-Philippe Valois-Angouleme 1st Baron of Velay with Mary Stuart named as his godmother.

Season Three[]

He's orphaned when he loses his parents in a less of a year of each other.

Season Four[]

In Leaps of Faith, Jean-Philippe and Narcisse return to French Court. He said "He has Lola’s eyes, and I can not bear to look at him”. Catherine thanks Narcisse for returning him to her, and she promises to protect and look after him.

Relationships[]

Familial[]

Francis II[]

Francis was his father. Lola kept him in the dark about her pregnancy until the moment she went into labour in the season finale. At first, Francis wasn't keen on the child and planned to send Lola and the boy away, but when he held the baby in his arms for the first time, he changed his mind and returned to court with Lola and the baby in tow.

The baby caused a lot of tension between Mary and Francis, who were trying to conceive a child of their own to strengthen Mary's position in the eyes of the court. Mary didn't want Francis to claim his son at first, but soon came around to the idea and gave Francis her blessing to do so.

Francis made Jean a baron and gave him lands, so as to publicly recognise him as his son. Later, when his actions drove France into a civil war and ruined his marriage, he noted how Jean was his only source of joy. In Burn, when Jean was said to have died during a failed kidnapping attempt, Francis was overwhelmed with grief.

Lola Narcisse[]

Lola was terrified upon finding out that she was pregnant, and clearly didn't want it, going as far as to try to get an abortion. However, when Jean was born, Lola was smitten. In Drawn and Quartered, Lola revealed how close she already felt to her newborn son.

Jean became Lola's drive and that affected her life in several ways, including the men she courted and the kind of influence she wanted around Jean.

While being brought up to the scaffold to be beheaded in Spiders in a Jar, Lola made Narcisse promise that he was going to tell Jean how she loved him, every day.

Mary Stuart[]

Mary was Jean's step-mother. Lola's ability to conceive a baby in one night, with Mary's husband, no less, was Mary's greatest source of insecurity during the first season and it amplified when Jean was born.

However, Mary found it within herself to give Francis her blessing to claim Jean, believing that their marriage will be stronger for it. She was even graceful enough to accept a position as the baby's godmother, as well as hold him at his christening, mere days after suffering a miscarriage.

However, once Jean became an orphan, Mary didn't quite step up to the role of godmother. It is unknown why.

Stéphane Narcisse[]

Narcisse went quite a long way from threatening Jean's life to growing to care for him through his love for Jean's mother. When Lola died and Jean became an orphan, Narcisse stood by his pledge to ensure the boy is protected, though he couldn't bare to raise him. That was because Jean reminded him too much of Lola.

Catherine de' Medici[]

Catherine is Jean's grandmother and although she loves him dearly, she is not above risking his life to fulfill her own political agenda.

Appearances[]


Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Lola named him Robert after her brother, until he was officially named Jean-Philippe at his christening.
  • Mary Stuart is his godmother as well as his step-mother.
  • His full name and title is Jean-Philippe Valois-Angoulême, 1st Baron of Vallie.
  • Jean-Phillipe is fictional, since Francis II never had any children.
  • He is now an orphan, losing his father in In a Clearing and his mother in Spiders in a Jar.
  • As of Leaps of Faith, Jean has returned to French Court where he was reunited with his grandmother.
  • He likes wild raspberries.

See Also[]

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