publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Valois, Counts and Dukes of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University...

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...

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...

The House of Valois-Burgundy (French: Maison de Valois-Bourgogne, Dutch: Huis van Valois-Bourgondië), or the Younger House of Burgundy, was a noble French...

Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon. The Valois descended from Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325), the second surviving son of King Philip III of France (reigned...

of Sardinia to the historical possessions of the Duchy, and from then on, the Savoyard dukes also held the title of Kings of Sardinia. The House of Savoy...

later Duchy, of Valois, France, governed by the counts and dukes of Valois Valois, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, a neighbourhood in the city of Pointe-Claire...

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...

family. From then on it was held by cadets of the Valois House of Orleans, until Francis of Angoulême, became king of France in 1515. Angoumois was definitively...

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...

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...

Count of Valois (1386?–1406) Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord (1400–1407) and Soissons (1404–07). Louis was the younger brother of King...

the death of the only son of Guy II, Count of Blois prompted him to sell the inheritance of the County of Blois to Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, merging...

(1362–1382) - son of John de Valois, Duke of Berry and Auvergne John de Valois, Count of Montpensier (1363–1401) - brother Marie of Valois, Countess of Montpensier...

de Valois (28 April 1573 – 24 September 1650) was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême...

Highness. The first Dukedom of Orléans was created for Philip of Valois, seventh son of Philip VI of France and younger brother of John the Good, in 1344....

of Paris (1259). Thereafter, the duchy formed an integral part of the French royal demesne. The kings of the House of Valois started a tradition of granting...

time and largely through inheritance, was, in fact, their principal source of wealth and prestige. The Dukes were members of the House of Valois-Burgundy...

age of 20. As a consequence, male-preference primogeniture was the practiced succession law for the nobility. The Merovingian kings and dukes of Aquitaine...

King John II of France through proximity of blood. John granted the duchy to his younger son, Philip the Bold, in 1363. The Valois dukes gradually came...

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)...

of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was Queen of Navarre from 1572 to 1599 and Queen of France...

of France, Count of Clermont, and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of Bourbon. In 1416, with the death of John of Valois, the Dukes of Bourbon...

Isabella of Valois (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess...

part of it to create the county of Alençon. After 1325, both counties were generally held by a member or members of a cadet line of the House of Valois. Upon...

of the Burgundian branch of the House of Valois. His vast collection of territories made him the undisputed premier peer of the Kingdom of France and...

the counts and dukes ruled almost as sovereigns. The counts of Holland tried frequently to increase their territory but apart from the acquisition of Zeeland...

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. Members...

Philip of Orléans (1 July 1336 – 1 September 1375) was a Duke of Orléans, Touraine, and Count of Valois, the fifth son of King Philip VI of France and his...

demented king. John played a game of marriages by exchanging his daughter Margaret of Burgundy for Michelle of Valois, who would marry his heir, Philip...