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    Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (category Counts of Clermont-en-Auvergne)
    of France. His paternal great-grandmother Anne of Auvergne was daughter of the Dauphin of Auvergne and after the extinction of her brother's line, in...
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    occasion of his marriage with Anne of Auvergne, Heiress Countess of Forez, daughter of Beraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne[broken anchor] and Jeanne of Forez;...
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    Charles V of France (category Dauphins of France)
    contrast to his father, who was tall, strong and sandy-haired. Humbert II, Dauphin of Viennois, ruined due to his inability to raise taxes after a crusade...
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    of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century. Its cadet branch, extinct in 1802...
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    who was born as Franz Xaver Karl Georg Arthur von Werner. She spent part of her youth in the Auvergne and studied at the Lycée Maritime in Ciboure. Philomena...
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    France, used by the Dauphins of Vienne and Auvergne, before 1349 when it became the title of the heir to the French throne. The Dauphin was the lord of the...
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    Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, one kilometer east of the town, in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The façades and roof of the château are listed as a...
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  • when there was no Dauphin of France, the king would be personally sovereign over the Dauphiné. His title there, when there was no Dauphin of France, was...
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    │ X Anne of Auvergne (1358–1417), Comtess de Forez │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Jean (1381–1434), Duke of Bourbon │ │ │ │ X Marie, Duchess of Auvergne (1367–1434)...
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    Duke of Burgundy General of the French forces at Bordeaux Countess of Auvergne Master Gunner of Orléans Master Gunner's son Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc)...
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    Catherine de' Medici (category Dauphines of Viennois)
    second son of King Francis I and Queen Claude of France, who would become Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536. Catherine's...
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    future King Henry II in 1533, the last of these provinces, the county of Auvergne, came to the crown of France. Antiquity of nobility in the legitimate male...
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    House of La Fayette (category People from Auvergne)
    Fayette was a French family of Nobles of the Sword, from the province of Auvergne, established during the Middle Ages by the lords of the fief of La Fayette...
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    Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (category Dauphines of Viennois)
    the title of Duchess of Berry and in 1577 she obtained the duchies of Auvergne and Bourbon in exchange. On 28 August 1575, Elisabeth visited her almost...
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  • re-erected at present site in 1929 Philis de La Charce at the jardins des Dauphins in Grenoble, by Pierre-Etienne Daniel Campagne [fr] (1900) Vercingetorix...
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    in Poitou (1377–1385) Ordre de la Pomme d'Or, founded by 14 knights in Auvergne (1394) Alliance et Compagnie du Levrier, founded by 44 knights in the Barrois...
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    ringing from the otherwise clear twilight sky. Her godfather was Louis, Dauphin of France, in exile in Burgundy at that time; he named her for his mother...
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  • descends into madness. Dauphin (sometimes Dolphin in older texts): The Dauphin (hist) is Henry's chief enemy in Henry V. The Dauphin, later King Charles...
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  • von Bismarck, Colonna, von Dohna-Schlobitten, von Eulenburg, de Faucigny-Lucinge, von Lichnowsky, von Pless, Ruffo di Calabria, (de Talleyrand) von Sagan...
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    ans naissait le Campus universitaire de Saint-Martin-d'Hères". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. 9 December 2013. "A Grenoble student's (fine) life". Grenoble...
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    Languedoc. He allied with the dauphin, the future Henri II during this time in his rivalry with the king's third son. Upon the dauphin's ascent in 1547 Montmorency...
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    Austrian alliance, Choiseul was an advocate of the marriage between the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and the archduchess Marie Antoinette, a daughter...
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    heiress to an immense fortune which included five duchies, the Dauphinate of Auvergne, and the sovereign Principality of Dombes, found in the historical province...
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    Carcassonne, and plundered Narbonne. In 1356, on another chevauchée, he ravaged Auvergne, Limousin, and Berry but failed to take Bourges. He offered terms of peace...
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  • cousin John of Bohemia (aged 38) in December 1334. Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (aged about 11/12), was married to Philip of Burgundy (aged about 14/15)...
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  • Val de Loire Bourgogne Franche-Comte Normandy Provence Alpes-Cote d'Azur Auvergne-Rhone-Alps Geoffrey of Villehardouin Guerin, Hospitallier Knight, Bishop...
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    models in the Louvre in December 1827, initially named musée dauphin in honor of Dauphin Louis Antoine, building on an 18th-century initiative of Henri-Louis...
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  • Press. p. 328; lines one and two. ...constable of France....and dauphin of Auvergne, was born on the 17th of February 1490 David Patrick; William Geddie...
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  • 1450) 1527 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (b. 1490) 1540 – Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar (b. 1492) 1596...
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    206 men Center of first French Line in Fontenoy Brigade Dauphin General Vauguyon Rgt. Dauphin 3 battalions 4 off. 45 men 3 off. 60 men Rgt. Beauvoisis...
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