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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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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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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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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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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Louis of Anjou, Queen Joanna II's adopted heir had been Alfonso, King of Aragon. He refused to be disinherited and conquered Naples from René of Anjou in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Barthélemy d'Eyck (redirect from Master of René of Anjou)
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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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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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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lord of Beauvau and Sermaise in Anjou. He was ambassador to Henry VI of England, retainer of the House of Anjou, and close friend of René of Anjou, he...
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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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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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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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Burning Bush Triptych (category Paintings of Catherine of Alexandria)
triptych by Nicolas Froment in Aix Cathedral. Weighing half a ton, René of Anjou commissioned it in 1476 for the tomb designed for his entrails. It originally...
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Francesco I Sforza (redirect from Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan)
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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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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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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Jeanne de Laval (redirect from Jeanne of Laval)
consort of René I of Anjou, King of Naples, Sicily, titular King of Jerusalem, Aragon, and Majorca; Duke of Anjou, Bar, and Lorraine; and Count of Provence...
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Louis III and René of Anjou. Born in 1380, Pierre was the son of Jean II de Beauvau and Jeanne de Tigny. A retainer of the House of Anjou, he accompanied...
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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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