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	Anne of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born in Nantes, France on January 25, 1477 and was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix.
		Anne was initially betrothed to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and the marriage was performed by proxy on 19 December 1490.
		Renée of France (1510 - 1575) married the Duke of Ferrara and became the Duchess of Chartres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_of_Brittany (666 words)

	ANNE OF BRITTANY - LoveToKnow Article on ANNE OF BRITTANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pa ~e marriage contract was ostensibly directed in favor of the Ju dependence of Brittany, for it declared that Brittany should cert to the second son or to the eldest daughter of the two vereigns, and, failing issue, to the natural heirs of the duchess.
		Anne d after a long illness on the 2nd of March 1619, and was buried Westminster Abbey.
		Annes y daughter, Suzanne, had married in 1505 her cousin, Charles Bourbon, count of Montpensier, the future constable; and question of the succession of Suzanne, who died in 1521, s the determining factor of the treason of the constable Bourbon (1523).
	14.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANNE_OF_BRITTANY.htm (1369 words)

	Claude of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claude de France (14 October 1499 – 20 July 1524), Queen consort of France and duchess of Brittany in her own right, was the eldest daughter of King Louis XII of France and Anne, duchess of Brittany.
		In 1504 Claude's mother Anne, eager to keep an independent Brittany out of French hands, effected the Treaty of Blois, which assured the hand of Claude to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with the promise of Brittany and Burgundy.
		The prospect of a reduced France surrounded on several sides was untenable for the Valois and so the betrothal was shortly cancelled and, in 1506 the child was betrothed instead to her cousin, François, duke of Angoulême who was the next in the French line of succession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_de_France (580 words)

	Anne of Brittany -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She was born in (A port city in western France on the Loire estuary) Nantes, (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France on January 25, 1477 and was the daughter of (additional info and facts about Francis II, Duke of Brittany) Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix.
		It was felt natural that Anne succeeds her father as his closest relative (a typical (additional info and facts about Semi-Salic) Semi-Salic solution favoring pragmatic succession) when no male lines were left.
		Anne was initially betrothed to (Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire) Holy Roman Emperor (additional info and facts about Maximilian I) Maximilian I and the marriage was performed by proxy on 19 December, 1490.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anne_of_brittany.htm (646 words)

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		Nominoë snatched Brittany from the archdiocese of Tours on which she was suffragan; he founded the archdiocese of Dol, in order to establish a self governing Breton church which could continue and support the traditions of the Bretons.
		François the 2nd, the duke of Brittany, was compelled to accept the clause of the Treaty which stated that his daughter, Anne, the only heiress of the Dukedom could marry only with the consent of the king of France.
		On the death of her father, Anne, the now Duchess of Brittany was forced to marry Charles the 8th (the king of France), in 1491 ; and later, his successor, Louis the l2th, in 1499.
	www.chez.com /buan1/history_of_brittany.htm (1553 words)

	ANNE OF DENMARK - LoveToKnow Article on ANNE OF DENMARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		wi The last days of Anne were absorbed by the endeavour to Sh ~engthen the position of the heir to the throne, the baby ~ 1 sarev-ich Ivan, afterwards Ivan VI., the son of the empresss do ~ce, Anna Leopoldovna, against the superior claims of her ne usin the cesarevna Elizabeth.
		m~ Anne was a grim, sullen woman, frankly sensual, but a~ well- Se ~aning as ignorance and vindictiveness would allow her to be.
		(R. B.) Cl ANNE OF BRITTANY (1477I 514), daughter of Francis II., rej ke of Brittany, and Margnerite de Foix.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANNE_OF_DENMARK.htm (1690 words)

	AllRefer.com - Anne of Brittany (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Anne of Brittany 1477–1514, queen of France as consort of Charles VIII from 1491 to 1498 and consort of Louis XII from 1499 until her death.
		The daughter of Duke Francis II of Brittany, she was heiress to his duchy.
		Besieged at Rennes in 1491, Anne was forced by the French to annul her marriage and was quickly married to Charles VIII.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AnneBrit.html (379 words)

	Anne Of Brittany -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		King Charles VIII of France, fearful that Brittany might pass into the hands of a foreign power, attacked it, and Anne was forced in the end to break with Maximilian and marry Charles (Dec. 6, 1491); the process of the union of Brittany with the French crown was thus begun.
		The marriage contract declared that Brittany should eventually fall to the second son or to the eldest daughter of the marriage or, failing issue, to Anne's natural heirs; the special rights and privileges of the duchy were to be maintained.
		For the remainder of her life, Anne, a woman of great intelligence, devoted herself to the administration of her duchy and jealously guarded its autonomy, but in the end her daughter Claude was betrothed (1506) to Francis of Angoulême, the future Francis I of France.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9007685?tocId=9007685 (684 words)

	This Month in Celtic History -- December 2000
		The course decided upon was for Anne herself to marry the still-single French King, ostensibly as an equal partner, and through the pre-nuptual agreement insist on some rights and privileges that would maintain Brittany’s distinct existence as a duchy.
		Brittany was still a duchy, though now it was by marriage the property of the French king.
		A formal Act of Union between France and Brittany would be proclaimed in 1532, but the rights and privileges secured in the process of Anne’s marriage to Charles secured a small degree of Breton home rule under an assembly known as the Breton Etats until it was unilaterally swept aside in the French Revolution.
	www.celticleague.org /history_12-00.html (811 words)

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		In 1491 King Charles VIII forced the Anne, Duchess of Brittany, too cancel her proxy wedding to Maximilian, the Holy Roman Emperor and de-facto ruler of Burgundy.
		Instead, Anne was to marry the French king, ending the last vestiges of Breton independence.
		Brittany was formerly an English sphere of influence and Henry, who like his predecessors styled himself King of France, was not prepared to see it go without a struggle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,306845,00.html (663 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Anne of Brittany @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ANNE OF BRITTANY [Anne of Brittany] 1477-1514, queen of France as consort of Charles VIII from 1491 to 1498 and consort of Louis XII from 1499 until her death.
		Shortly before her father's death (1488), a French army under Louis de La Trémoille successfully invaded Brittany and secured the duke's promise that Anne would marry only with the consent of the French crown.
		The marriage (1514) of Claude, Anne's daughter by Louis XII, to Francis of Angoulême (later Francis I of France) led to the eventual incorporation (1532) by France of Brittany, which had previously remained theoretically separate.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:AnneBrit&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (308 words)

	Duchy of Brittany: Ducal banners (part 4)
		The son of François I and Claude de France was Dauphin and duke of Brittany (1532-1536).
		Henri, François' brother, became Dauphin in 1536 and was crowned duke of Brittany in 1537.
		The last duke of Brittany, François, crowned in 1544, used the first banner of his grand-mother Claude de France.
	www.fotw.net /Flags/fr-bz-d3.html (239 words)

	Women in power 1500-1540
		Also known as Anne Holgers, she was first married to Holger Eriksen Rosenkrantz and secondly to Jørgen Ahlefeldt, who was killed in battle in 1500.
		Her mother, Duchess Anne of Bretagne, who had always fought fiercely to keep the state independent of the French crown, tried to will the duchy to Renée, but her father King Louis XII ignored this and instead granted Brittany to his successor, the husband of her sister, Francis I, King of France.
		After her oldest daughter, Maria, had been divorced from Federico II Gonzaga, Anne arranged the marriage between Federico and her second daughter Margherita, who transmitted the claims of the Margravte to her husband, who was appointed Marchese of Monferrato in 1536.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower1500.htm (8377 words)

	:: Bretagne.com :: english issue :: Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the death of her father, François II Duke of Brittany, she was only twelve years old, but the pretenders to the throne were already flocking to her.
		Anne uses the occasion of this mourning to stamp her coins, to reinstate the chancellery and to reunite its states.
		At her death, on the 9th of January 1514, Anne of Brittany is acknowledged and loved by all of the Breton people.
	www.brittany-bretagne.com /pg/anne.htm (361 words)

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		Queen Anne and her Council were stopped by the consideration that the king of Spain would claim to succeed to the Crown of France, if the little Dauphin should die.
		The Duchess was a great fat masculine creature, more than past the meridian, who had been beautiful and who affected to be so still; bare bosomed; her hair behind her ears; covered with rouge and patches, and full of finicking ways.
		Madame la Duchesse de Berry, who was in the family way, kept her bed; and in order that she should not be seen there when people came to pay her the usual visits of condolence, the room was kept quite dark.
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	History and chronology of Btittany
		Nominoë was made king of Brittany by Charlemagne's son Louis the Devout (Louis le Pieux).
		His kingdom streched as far as Nantes Nominoë died on the 7th of March 851 at Vendôme as he was advancing on the Seine (after his conquest of Maine and Anjou).
		On August, the States of Brittany met in Vannes in order to sign the agreement of the Union between Brittany and France.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /alain.liscoet/chronologie_historiquean.htm (624 words)

	MARGARET OF AUSTRIA (DUCHESS OF PARMA) - LoveToKnow Article on MARGARET OF AUSTRIA (DUCHESS OF PARMA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		(C. MARGARET OF AUSTRIA (1480-1530), duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands from 1507 to 1530, daughter of the archduke Maximilian of Austria, afterwards the emperor Maximilian I., was born at Brussels on the loth of January 1480.
		Her ambitious father now sought for Margaret another throne, and in April 1497 she was married at Burgos to the Infant John, heir to the throne of Castile and Aragon.
		MARGARET OF AUSTRIA (1522-1586), duchess of Parma and regent of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567, was a natural daughter of Charles V. Her mother, Margaret van Ghent, was a Fleming.
	69.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARGARET_OF_AUSTRIA_DUCHESS_OF_PARMA_.htm (2726 words)

	Breton History 2 Yan Kraffe & Friends
		John of Montfort is recognised duke of Brittany by the peace of Guérande (John IV).
		constitution of the Army of Brittany that is abandoned then without arms in the mud of the camp of Conlie by fear that this is an army of chouans.
		the marquis of the Estourbeillon, with the approval of the marshal Foch and bishops of Brittany, advertising, to the opportunity of the treaty of peace, the renewal of the treaty of Union of 1532 and the possibility for Brittany to express in international conferences.
	www.kraffe.org /kraffe/breton/hisbret.html (1328 words)

	This is Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He married secondly in 1490 by proxy Anne, daughter of Francois II, Duke of Brittany.
		He planned to prevent a French invasion of the province but Charles VIII proceeded to take Brittany and demanded the Duchess as his bride.
		Anne and the French King were married in 1491.
	www.heritagesites.eu.com /people/maxi.htm (307 words)

	International Travel News: Brittany's Dinan—roosters and ramparts - Rick Steves' Europe[C] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brittany's Dinan—roosters and ramparts - Rick Steves' Europe[C]
		While it has a touristicicing, -- plenty of creperies, shops pedaling Brittany kitsch, and colorful flags -- it is also clearly a work-a-day town filled with locals who take pride in their Breton culture.
		The animosity dates to 1491, when Brittany's Duchess Anne was forced to marry the French king and feisty Brittany was obliged to become part of France.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_3_28/ai_101174947 (1072 words)

	Duke of Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Angevin Empire in Brittany came to an end in 1203, after King John of England murdered his nephew, Arthur, the son of Geoffrey and Constance.
		After the Breton War of Succession, Brittany still had links with the English Crown through the Earldom of Richmond, until the Wars of the Roses forced Richmondshire to become partisan with the House of Lancaster under the Tudor dynasty.
		Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, "The Younger", son of Bertha and Alan of Richmond.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Duke-of-Brittany.htm (598 words)

	Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brittany (French: Bretagne; Breton: Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a former province and present-day administrative region of France.
		The principal city is Rennes, although the historical capital of the Duchy of Brittany was Nantes.
		French, the official language of the French Republic, is spoken all over Brittany, but the region has two other languages, both still spoken by minorities, typically in rural areas: Breton, a Celtic language related to Welsh; and Gallo, a Romance language related to the same origin as French.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/brittany (1724 words)

	History Channel Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From the Brittany peninsula to the Gironde estuary, the Atlantic coastline is irregular in outline and, except in Brittany, is low and sandy.
		Brittany, the statue-menhirs of southern France, and the dolmens, or chamber tombs, of the Loire Valley, the Parisian Basin, and Champagne.
		In the northwest, Celtic refugees from Britain, which had also been invaded by Germanic tribes, sought and gained refuge and gave their name to the region of Brittany.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..fr070800.a (7040 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - France
		From the Brittany peninsula to the Gironde, the Atlantic coastline of France is irregular in outline, and, except in Brittany, is low and sandy.
		For example, Breton is the language of daily interaction for many in Brittany, and there is a call for it to be officially recognized.
		Basque and Catalan are spoken in the Pyrénées mountain region near to the Spanish border.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761568934__1/France.html (18433 words)

	Charles VIII (from Charles, kings of France) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		For a time he submitted to the regency of his elder sister, Anne of Beaujeu.
		Anne proved to be an able regent and soon showed the feudal princes that they must respect the throne.
		rival duke of Brittany, a son of the French king Philip VI's sister Margaret.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-198444?tocId=198444&ct=gen1 (634 words)

	Anne Of France -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anne of France, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, c.
		also called Anne Of Beaujeu eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy, who exercised, with her husband, Pierre de Bourbon, seigneur de Beaujeu, a virtual regency in France from 1483 to 1491, during the early years of the reign of King Charles VIII.
		Anne's energy, strength of will, cunning, and political sense enabled her to overcome the difficulties threatening the kingdom, …
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007688 (682 words)

	Margaret of Austria
		Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands from 1507 to 1530, daughter of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, afterwards the emperor Maximilian I, was born at Brussels on the 10th of January 1480.
		At two years of age she was betrothed to the dauphin Charles, son of Louis XI of France, and was brought up at the French court.
		In 1489, however, Charles, now king as Charles VIII, to prevent Maximilian taking as his second wife the duchess Anne of Brittany, threw over Margaret and married the Breton heiress himself.
	www.nndb.com /people/085/000095797 (209 words)

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