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| | Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc. |
 | | Counts of Artois, 1237-1382 AD The County of Artois lay between the Counties of Flanders and Vermandois, fronting on the English Channel. |
 | | While Artois was not about to become a player, let alone a power, and Robert failed to snag the larger domains that his brothers did, his descendants nevertheless intermarried into the house of Narvarre, the Free County of Burgundy, the Duchy of Burgundy, Flanders, and, twice, Kings of France. |
 | | From Blanca (more commonly called "Blanche" in the French context), we get the entire subsequent line of Navarre, whose hieresses later married the French King Philip IV, the French counts of Evreux, Foix, and Albret, King John II of Aragón, and finally Anthony Duke of Vendôme, the heir of the Bourbons. |
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