Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th centuries...
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Orléans, Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon. The Valois descended from Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325), the second surviving son of King Philip III of France...
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History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press. Counts and Dukes of Anjou Counts and Dukes of Maine Counts of Provence...
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and Duchesses of Anjou were the wives of the ruling counts of Anjou and later the nominal French counts and dukes of Anjou. None None None Most dukes...
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appointed Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, as its first margrave. At the time, the premier counts in the region were the counts of Arles and those of Avignon. Those...
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younger son of Louis II of Anjou. While disputed by the House of Luxembourg (1425–1444), the county was ultimately retained by the House of Anjou and its descendants...
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François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon (French: Hercule François; 18 March 1555 – 10 June 1584) was the youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine...
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and dukes of Angoulême Counts and Dukes of Anjou Duke of Aquitaine Counts and Dukes of Auvergne Duc de Berry Duke of Bourbon Duke of Brittany Duke of...
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Plantagenet, was the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144...
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Angevin (redirect from House of Anjou (disambiguation))
d'oïl spoken in Anjou Counts and Dukes of Anjou House of Ingelger, a Frankish noble family who were counts of Anjou between the 10th and 12th centuries...
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territory of Luxembourg has been ruled successively by counts, dukes and grand dukes. It was part of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, and later the Holy...
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with a coalition of Odo I, count of Blois, and Conan I of Rennes. The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to...
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the lower Loire. Its capital was Angers, and its area was roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers. Anjou was bordered by Brittany to the west, Maine...
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Count of Alençon, Chartres, son of Charles of Valois and Margaret of Anjou 1510-1528 Renée of France (1510 † 1574), Duchess of Chartres, daughter of Louis...
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dispossessed twice by the reigning Dukes of Brittany, once by John V and another time by Francis II. In 1337 Joan the Lame, Duchess of Brittany, brought Penthièvre...
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Angevin Empire (category States and territories established in 1154)
The Counts of Anjou had been vying for power in northwestern France since the 10th century. The counts were recurrent enemies of the dukes of Normandy...
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ducatus on the death of Pepin by their father, Louis the Pious. Robert the Strong (851/3–856) – given Maine, Anjou, and Touraine as dux and missus dominicus...
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(1005–1017), Bishop of Paris 991–1017 Bodon of Nevers (1017–1023), by marriage to Adèle de Vendôme-Anjou, daughter of Fulk III of Anjou and Elisabeth de Vendôme...
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Several counts and then royal dukes of Alençon have figured in French history. The title has been awarded to a younger brother of the French sovereign...
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title Count Robert received by imperial grant in 1354 was that of Margrave of Pont-à-Mousson. This margraviate was frequently bestowed by the Dukes of Bar...
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the King of England down to 1144, when, during the civil war known as the Anarchy, it was conquered by Geoffrey Plantagenet, the Count of Anjou. Geoffrey's...
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Charles I, count of Valois; the Dukes of Anjou, descendants of Louis, the second son of King John II; and the dukes of Burgundy, descendants of Philip, the...
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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...
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Kings of Navarre to 1589 (Henry IV) Bourbon Kings of Navarre and France to 1789 Princes of Condé Dukes of Orléans Dukes of Anjou (House of Bourbon-Anjou) House...
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1078. Godfrey I (from 1095) Counts of Leuven, Counts of Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant, Margrave of Antwerp and Dukes of Lower-Lorraine: Godfrey I (1106–1139)...
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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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derived from Anjou. As a noun, it refers to any native of Anjou or an Angevin ruler, and specifically to other counts and dukes of Anjou, including the...
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and three temporal, and the dukes all ranked above the counts. The Prince-Bishops with ducal territories included: The Archbishop of Reims, styled archevêque-duc...
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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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other counts and dukes of Anjou; including the three kings' ancestors, their cousins who held the crown of Jerusalem and unrelated later members of the...
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