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    Austria (5 July 1554 – 22 January 1592) was Queen of France from 1570 to 1574 as the wife of King Charles IX. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was the...
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  • duc d'Anjou, ensuite avec le duc d'Alençon, tous deux frères de Charles IX, roi de France; vol. I) This last was read to the Academy on 22 January 1793...
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    Francis II, the new king, her half-brother Charles IX gave her, by lettres patentes signed at the Château de Vincennes, the Duchy of Châtellerault. The...
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    Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Catherine de' Medici. He was a grandson of Francis I of France and Claude of France. His older brothers were Francis II of France, Charles IX of France, and...
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    dowager, enfants de France (children of France) and petits-enfants de France (grandchildren of France) constituted the famille du roi (royal family). More...
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    grandson of King Louis IX of France, Charles of Valois was a son, brother, brother-in-law and son-in-law of kings or queens (of France, Navarre, England and...
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    Louis XIV (NY: 1968). Lahaye, Matthieu, Louis, Dauphin de France. Fils de roi, père de roi, jamais roi, DEA directed by Joël Cornette, University of Paris...
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    of the maison militaire du roi de France ("military household of the king of France") under the Ancien Régime. The French Guards, who were located in...
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    funérailles célébrées deux jours après la mort du roi. Gaude-Ferragau, Murielle (2016). Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500. Translated by Krieger, Angela...
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    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against...
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    France, becoming the first French king from the House of Valois. Charles is a character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of French historical...
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     255. Gicquel, Yvonig [in French] (1986). Alain IX de Rohan, 1382–1462: un grand seigneur de l'âge d'or de la Bretagne (in French). Éditions Jean Picollec...
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    Antoine de Bourbon, roi de Navarre (22 April 1518 – 17 November 1562) was the King of Navarre through his marriage (jure uxoris) to Queen Jeanne III, from...
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  • Guerre"), the "Département de la Maison du Roi" was the oldest of the specialized State Ministries, created in 1570 by Charles IX who reunited—under the control...
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    Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Le roi est mort. Étude sur les funérailles, les sépultures et les tombeaux des rois de France jusqu'à la fin du xiiie siècle...
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    (help) Delisle, Léopold. Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, roi de France, 1337–1380 (in French). Paris: H. Campion. Guicciardini, Francesco (1969)...
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    his father, the seneschal of Rouergue to court in 1572 to inform King Charles IX of the failure of the sieges of Montauban and Millau. The following year...
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    throughout France. The wars threatened the authority of the monarchy and the last Valois kings, Catherine's three sons Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III...
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    mistress, Beatrice de la Berruère, he had another son: Thomas de la Marche (1318-1361), bâtarde de France Philip is a character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed...
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    Louis IX's overlordship, although the King of France did not seize Aquitaine from Henry III. Louis IX was now the most important landowner of France, adding...
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    (1248–1306) and Agnes of France (1260–1327), the youngest daughter of Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence. As such, she was a member of House of Burgundy...
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  • 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...
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    Charles de Balsac, baron de Dunes (known as Entraguet or ‘the young’) (c. 1547 –c. 1599) was a French noble, governor, soldier and courtier during the...
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    residence begun in 1360 by Charles V of France on the ruins of a building constructed by Louis IX. It was used by Charles V and Charles VI. Located on the Right...
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  • was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France. The title was created in 1270 by Louis IX of France, during the Eighth Crusade. At the time, it was...
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    attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. King Charles IX ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot...
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