• Thumbnail for Francis I of France
    Henry II of France, would inherit after Francis' death. Indeed, the Italian Wars had begun when Milan sent a plea to King Charles VIII of France for protection...
    54 KB (6,106 words) - 02:55, 28 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Louis XIV
    known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72...
    157 KB (18,304 words) - 17:01, 7 March 2025
  • très puissant et très excellent Prince, X, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre, Roi Très-chrétien) Orleanist: "X, by the Grace of God and...
    30 KB (3,087 words) - 04:35, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis XVII
    roi de France et de Navarre (Charles Louis, duc de Normandie)". The Dutch authorities who had inscribed on his death certificate the name of Charles Louis...
    33 KB (3,992 words) - 14:30, 6 February 2025
  • The Conseil du Roi (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛj dy ʁwa]; 'King's Council'), also known as the Royal Council, is a general term for the administrative...
    36 KB (5,308 words) - 00:57, 24 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Louis, Grand Dauphin
    Matthieu, Louis, Dauphin de France. Fils de roi, père de roi, jamais roi, DEA directed by Joël Cornette, University of Paris VIII, 2005. Lahaye, Matthieu...
    19 KB (2,280 words) - 01:13, 9 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gardes du Corps du Roi (France)
    The Gardes du Corps du Roi (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ dy ʁwa]) was a cavalry unit of the maison militaire du roi de France. The oldest unit in the...
    25 KB (2,857 words) - 23:29, 29 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for John VIII, Count of Vendôme
    John VIII de Bourbon (1425 – 6 January 1478) was Count of Vendôme from 1446 until his death. A member of the House of Bourbon, he was the son and successor...
    5 KB (355 words) - 01:10, 2 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles VI of France
    ISBN 978-0-8240-4444-2. Chartier, Jean, Chronique de Charles VII, Roi de France, publié avec notes par Vallet de Viriville, Paris 1858 Jeffrey Hamilton, The...
    31 KB (3,539 words) - 17:08, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Joan of France, Duchess of Berry
    1464 in the castle of Pierre de Brézé, a trusted supporter of her grandfather, King Charles VII of France, at Nogent-le-Roi in the County of Dreux. She...
    18 KB (1,910 words) - 04:49, 2 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of French monarchs
    century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which...
    96 KB (5,320 words) - 05:12, 20 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Scottish Guards (France)
    archiers de la garde du roi under the command of Guillaume Stuier (Stuart). At the beginning la compagnie écossaise des gardes du corps du roi included...
    14 KB (1,735 words) - 22:23, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles V of France
    Chroniques de France (in French). Paris: H. Laurens. OL 18764391M. Delisle, Léopold. Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, roi de France, 1337–1380...
    40 KB (5,145 words) - 10:19, 26 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fils de France
    dowager, enfants de France (children of France) and petits-enfants de France (grandchildren of France) constituted the famille du roi (royal family). More...
    26 KB (3,080 words) - 10:40, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Francis Edward Stuart
    marquis de (1726). Histoire Militaire du Règne de Louis-le-Grand, Roi de France. Huit tômes (in French). Vol. 6. Paris: Denis Mariette. pp. 197, 202....
    31 KB (3,022 words) - 04:17, 27 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bibliothèque nationale de France
    The Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites...
    26 KB (2,838 words) - 16:09, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Philip IV of France
    (from friend and foe alike) other nicknames, such as the Iron King (French: le Roi de fer). His fierce opponent Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers, said...
    48 KB (5,962 words) - 08:25, 26 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pope Pius VIII
    which he welcomed, and the July Revolution in France in 1830, which he reluctantly accepted. Pius VIII is often remembered for his writings on marriages...
    24 KB (2,534 words) - 11:50, 19 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
    Charles III de Bourbon comte de Montpensier then duc de Bourbon (17 February 1490 – 6 May 1527) was a French military commander, governor, prince of the...
    247 KB (36,688 words) - 09:04, 8 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Louis XVI
    (June 1999), p. 441. France), Louis X.V.I. (roi de (1791). "Déclaration du roi [Louis XVI] adressée à tous les Français, à sa sortie de ..." Coquard, Olivier...
    89 KB (10,562 words) - 08:41, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bureau du Roi
    Bureau du Roi (French pronunciation: [byʁo dy ʁwa], 'the King's desk'), also known as Louis XV's roll-top desk (French: Secrétaire à cylindre de Louis XV)...
    5 KB (538 words) - 20:11, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for France in the Middle Ages
    Kingdom of Navarre from his uncle Charles I of Naples, Count of Anjou (1266): youngest son of Louis VIII of France, conquered the Kingdom of Naples and...
    107 KB (15,081 words) - 18:20, 3 March 2025
  • (Latin: Fidei Defensor or, specifically feminine, Fidei Defensatrix; French: Défenseur de la Foi) is a phrase used as part of the full style of many English...
    17 KB (2,117 words) - 06:00, 6 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles, Count of Valois
    Charles of Valois (12 March 1270 – 16 December 1325), the fourth son of King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon, was a member of the House of...
    31 KB (3,726 words) - 09:02, 26 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for French court
    cour", La dignité de roi : Regards sur la royauté en France au premier XIXe siècle, Histoire (in French), Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 117–135...
    56 KB (6,803 words) - 10:58, 2 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Grand Huntsman of France
    grouped with the Great Officers of the Crown of France, was one of the "Great Offices of the Maison du Roi", and was equivalent to that of the "Grand Master...
    4 KB (519 words) - 02:00, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château d'Ancenis
    Château d'Ancenis (category Castles in Pays de la Loire)
    French). Retrieved 1 January 2019. P Pélicier, "À Louis de la Trémoille et à ses lieutenants, 4 juin 1488" , Lettres de Charles VIII, roi de France,...
    5 KB (651 words) - 18:23, 25 October 2024
  • rising to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1762 (the same day as his younger brother Henri, comte de Thiard) and fighting in the conquest of Franche-Comté...
    1 KB (153 words) - 23:13, 15 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Louis II de la Trémoille
    de la Trémoille (29 September 1460 – 24 February 1525), also known as La Trimouille, was a French general. He served under three kings: Charles VIII,...
    7 KB (564 words) - 02:55, 16 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Henry IV of France
    Henry IV (French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (le Bon Roi Henri) or Henry the Great (Henri le...
    64 KB (7,230 words) - 15:11, 24 February 2025