 The relationship between Claude and Charles III was described as a happy one.Claude was a favorite of her mother, who occasionally visited her in Lorraine, visits described as rare occasions of private family gatherings in the life of Catherine de Medici, who enjoyed to see her grandchildren by Claude and also liked her son-in-law Charles very much.Catherine de Medici was, for example, present in Bar-le-Duc for the baptism of Claude's firstborn son Henry.