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    John of Berry or John the Magnificent (French: Jean de Berry, Latin: Johannes de Bituria; 30 November 1340 – 15 June 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne...
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  • Duke of Berry (French: Duc de Berry) or Duchess of Berry (French: Duchesse de Berry) was a title in the Peerage of France. The Duchy of Berry, centred...
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    2014. Chisholm 1911, p. 808. Christophe Brun, Descendance inédite du duc de Berry: documents et commentaires, Paris 1998. Chisholm 1911, pp. 808–809. Chisholm...
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    Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry (French: Marguerite de Valois) (5 June 1523 – 15 September 1574) was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel...
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    Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Châteauvillain (Hôtel de Toulouse, Paris, 17 July 1748 – Hôtel de Toulouse, Paris, 19 May 1755). Vincent Marie Louis de...
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    Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres. As the second living son of his parents, his birth was not greeted with the enthusiasm the Duke of Valois had received in...
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    coats of arms of his parents-the House of Valois and the House of Visconti Margaret, Countess of Vertus Jean de Dunois, Count of Longueville  Kingdom of...
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    Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. In later times, the writer George Sand spent much of her life at her Berry estate in Nohant, and Berry's landscape and specific...
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    sons were addressed as: Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou Monseigneur le Duc de Berry This was the style of the dynastic wife...
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    Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy but died childless. Jean Gaston d'Orléans, Duke of Valois (17 August 1650 – 10 August 1652) died in infancy. Marie...
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    Charles (French: Charles de France; 26 December 1446 – 24/25 May 1472), Duke of Berry, later Duke of Normandy and Duke of Aquitaine, was a son of Charles...
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    Charles, count of Valois, brother of Philip IV (1293). A third house of Alençon counts descended from Charles, second son of the Count of Valois, who was killed...
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    worked at the duc du Maine's château de Sceaux. Her many daughters were rumoured to be promiscuous. Having become a widow, the Duchess of Berry accumulated...
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    Anjou, was the future Philip V of Spain. Charles was styled Duke of Berry (duc de Berry) at his birth, but never actually possessed that Duchy. In 1710,...
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    death of his uncle Gaston in 1660. He was also granted the dukedoms of Valois, Chartres and Nemours. Known as le Petit Monsieur or simply Monsieur, Philippe...
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    He is now thought to have been the patron behind the "Valois tapestries" presented to Catherine de' Medici, which depicted major figures in Catherine's...
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    Pavillon de Marsan, a portion of the Tuileries Palace that still survives in the compound of the Louvre Palace in Paris. His father, the duc de Berry, had...
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    brother, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, were educated by their gouverneur Armand-Louis, Marquis of Sérent in the château de Beauregard 5 km from Versailles...
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    "Jean de Malestroit, chancelier du duc Jean V et l'indépendance de la Bretagne". Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Atlantique...
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    Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (c. 1493 – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid...
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    Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (13 March 1753 – 23 June 1821), was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre...
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  • (1346–1384) - son Charles de Valois, Count of Montpensier (1362–1382) - son of John de Valois, Duke of Berry and Auvergne John de Valois, Count of Montpensier...
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    du duc de Normandie" at "Saint-Anthoine près de Paris". The Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V records that 7 June 1366 "la royne de France...
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    son of John de Valois, duc de Berry and Auvergne John of Valois, Count of Montpensier (1363–1401) - brother Marie de Valois, comtesse de Montpensier (1375–1434)...
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    César de Bourbon, Légitimé de France (June 1594 – 22 October 1665) was the illegitimate son of Henry IV of France and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées...
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    livres. Mademoiselle de Valois was his older half sister, future Duchess of Modena The Illegitimate Children of The Régent, duc d'Orléans, memoirs of...
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    the Armagnacs (supporters of the House of Valois) and the Burgundian party (supporters of the House of Valois-Burgundy, which was allied to the English)...
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    1410–1430): London, British Library, Add. MS 18850 Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (c.1405–1408/1409): Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection...
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    pp. 81–84. Vale 1974, p. 237. Ernest van Bruyssel, Histoire du commerce et de la marine en Belgique, 1863, p. 66., A. Janse, Een Pion voor een Dame (2009)...
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    courteously rebuffed. Perhaps the one real love in her life was Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours, nephew of King Louis XII. Gaston went to Italy, however, and...
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