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    René of Anjou (Italian: Renato; Occitan: Rainièr; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned...
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    "Good King René" (Bon Roi René), was duke of Anjou and titular king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem; he has been described as "a man of many crowns...
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    Duchess of Lorraine (1473) and Bar (1480). She was the daughter of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and René of Anjou (King of Naples, Duke of Anjou, Bar and...
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    Favier, Le Roi René (Paris: Fayard, 2008). Kekewich 2008, p. 53. Kekewich 2008, p. 54. Kekewich, Margaret L. (2008). The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth...
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  • François Prelati (category Year of birth unknown)
    court of Duke René of Anjou. This prince, son of Yolande of Aragon, had become the titular king of Sicily and the new head of the House of Valois-Anjou following...
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    Naples in 1480 as fourth Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence, according to the will of René, who had no surviving son. René's surviving daughter Yolande...
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  • of Anjou then passed to his brother René, second son of Louis II and Yolande of Aragon. Unlike his predecessors, who had rarely stayed long in Anjou,...
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    John II of Anjou (Nancy, August 2, 1426 – December 16, 1470, Barcelona) was Duke of Lorraine from 1453 to his death. He was the son of René of Anjou and Isabella...
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    in 1480, René of Anjou transferred his claim to his nephew, Charles IV, Duke of Anjou. Charles died in 1481 and willed his claim to Louis XI of France....
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    for René of Anjou. There have been at least three Triboulets, as homonymy was widespread among French court jesters. The Triboulet for René of Anjou was...
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  • the title by his father. He was the third son of René of Anjou and his first wife Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. He and his brother Jean were given as...
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    Capetian House of Anjou, or House of Anjou-Sicily, or House of Anjou-Naples was a royal house and cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. It is one of three separate...
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  • 1988. René, Duke of Anjou (1409–1480), titular king of Naples and Jerusalem René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451–1508), grandson of René of Anjou René I, Viscount...
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    Angers, the son of Yolande of Lorraine and Frederick, Count of Vaudémont. He spent his youth in the court of his grandfather René I of Anjou between Angers...
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    April 1417) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1384 to 1417; he claimed the Kingdom of Naples, but only ruled parts of the kingdom from 1390...
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    formally requested the hand of Margaret of Anjou, daughter of René of Anjou (brother in law to Charles VII) as a wife for Henry. Rene agreed, but insisted that...
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    Master of the Aix Annunciation for paintings, and the Master of René of Anjou for illuminated manuscripts. He is thought by many to be the Master of the...
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    Duchess of Lorraine from 25 January 1431 to her death in 1453. She was also Queen of Naples by marriage to René of Anjou. Isabella ruled the Kingdom of Naples...
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    Tarasque (category Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity)
    tradition, in 1474, René of Anjou initiated the use of the tarasque in the Pentecostal festival, and later used also on the saint's feast day of July 29. Yearly...
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    De situ orbis from Albi (category History of geography)
    Republic of Venice, represented by the general, had temporarily endorsed René of Anjou's claim to the throne of the Kingdom of Naples. René engaged in...
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    entered the employ of Duke René of Anjou. In 1431, Louis was appointed governor of Lorraine, by Duke René. Tasked with the mission of eradicating écorcheurs...
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    Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre. Brill. Kekewich, Margaret L. (2008). The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century...
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    Italy alongside René of Anjou, pretender to the throne of Naples, and after that returned to Milan. He was instrumental in the Treaty of Lodi (1454) which...
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    later repudiated) and Louis III of Anjou as heirs alternately, finally settling succession on Louis' brother René of Anjou of the junior Angevin line, and...
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    secure his rights to the Neapolitan throne that René of Anjou had left to his father, Charles made a series of concessions to neighbouring monarchs and, due...
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    and in 1437, the Count of Provence René of Anjou, who succeeded his father Louis II of Anjou as King of Sicily and Duke of Anjou, arrived in Marseille...
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    Angers (redirect from History of Angers)
    It was the cradle of the Plantagenet dynasty and became one of the intellectual centers of Europe during the reign of René of Anjou. Angers developed...
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    House of Valois-Anjou (French: Maison de Valois-Anjou, Italian: Casa Valois-Angiò) was a noble French family and cadet branch of the House of Valois...
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    behalf of King Charles VII of France, participating in the capture of Montereau, and that of Pontoise, in 1441. At this time, his brother, René of Anjou, ceded...
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    Josquin des Prez (category Classical composers of church music)
    taught by Ockeghem. By 1477 he was in the choir of René of Anjou and then probably served under Louis XI of France. Now a wealthy man, in the 1480s Josquin...
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