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  Duke of Berry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her nephew François, Duc d'Alençon, brother of King Charles IX, was created Duke of Anjou, of Berry and of Touraine in 1576, which titles became extinct on his death in 1584.
Charles, Dauphin du Viennois, Duc de Berry ( 1403 - 1461), succeeded as Charles VII in 1422
Marguerite d'Angoulême, Duchesse de Berry ( 1491 - 1549)
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 Berry
Berry, Alabama Berry is a town located in 2000 census, the population of the town is 1,238.
Berry, Kentucky Berry is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 310.
Berry, Wisconsin Berry is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,084.
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 Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry ( 1778 - February 13, 1820) was the younger son of Charles X of France and Marie-Thérèse de Savoie.
A daughter, Louise, was born in 1819 and later married Charles III of Parma.
The duchess of Berry was compelled to follow Charles X to Holyrood after July 1830, but it was with the resolution of returning speedily and making an attempt to secure the throne for her son.
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 The French Royal Family: A Genealogy
Philippe (1336-75), comte de Beaumont to 1353, comte de Valois 1344, duc d'Orléans 1344, s.p.
François I comte d'Angoulême, duc de Valois 1498
Gaston (1842-1922), comte d'Eu ~ Isabella de Bragança (1846-1921)
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Achille Léonce Victor Charles, duc de Broglie Achille Léonce Victor Charles, 3.
Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry (Versailles.
Henri, Comte de Paris, Duc de France Henri Philippe Pierre Marie, Comte de Paris, Duc de France is the pretender to the...
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 Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is usually referred to as "le roi des manuscrits enluminés" or "the king of the illuminated manuscripts", but it is also a pinnacle in the entire history of painting.
Commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry in 1413, it was painted by the Limbourg brothers who left it unfinished at their (and the Duc's) death in 1416.
The Duc Charles I de Savoie commissioned Jean Colombe to complete the painting of the manuscript between 1485-1489.
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 Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He served in the prince de Condé’s army against the French Revolution.
His assassination during the reign of King Louis XVIII —an attempt to extinguish the Bourbon line—gave the ultraroyalists the opportunity to turn Louis XVIII against the liberals.
Berry’s posthumous son was Henri, comte de Chambord.
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 Duc de Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Berry and Auvergne, newly raised to the rank of duchies, were granted to him by his father in 1360.
Berry maintained power by serving on a Council of 12 that he helped create to aid in the administration of France.
Berry also helped deliver Charles VI's unsuccessful cession plan (the retirement of two rival popes for the election of a single pope) to the antipope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
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 Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Jean, Duc de Berry, the third son of Jean II, le Bon, King of France (reigned 1350-1364), was born on November 30, 1340, in the Chateau de Vincennes.
His brothers were King Charles V (reigned 1364-1380), the Duc Louis I d'Anjou, and Philippe le Hardi, Duc de Bourgogne, and his nephews were King Charles VI (reigned 1380-1422) and the Duc Louis d'Orléans.
Although the Duc de Berry owned a large part of central France and governed the Languedoc, he was often unable to meet the enormous expenses of his extraordinarily luxurious life.
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 Articles - Charles X of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles X, King of France and of Navarre ( October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles.
Charles'; major foreign ally at this time was Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, who preferred Charles to the Baron de Breteuil, who was the opposing leader of the royalists-in-exile.
In 1824 Charles was crowned king upon the death of his brother, Louis XVIII.
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 Articles - Henri, comte de Chambord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné, comte de Chambord ( September 29, 1820 - August 24, 1883) was the grandson of King Charles X of France.
Henri was the son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry and of his wife Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
He was born September 29, 1820, in the pavillon de Marsan, part of the Tuileries Palace which still survives in the Louvre in Paris.
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 AllRefer.com - Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de, French History, Biographies
Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de [shArl ferd E nAN´, dUk d u ber E ´] Pronunciation Key, 1778–1820, younger son of Charles, comte d'Artois (later Charles X of France).
His assassination during the reign of King Louis XVIII : an attempt to extinguish the Bourbon line : gave the ultraroyalists the opportunity to turn Louis XVIII against the liberals.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles, Duc de Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry ( 1778 - February 13, 1820), younger son of Charles X of France, was born at Versailles.
At the Revolution he left France with his father, then comte d'Artois, and served in the army of Condé from 1792 to 1797.
A daughter, afterwards duchess of Parma, was born in 1819.
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 AllRefer.com - Chambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie DieudonnE, comte de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Chambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie DieudonnE, comte de [ANr E ´ shArl ferd E nAN´ mAr E ´ dyOdOn A ´ kONt d u shANbOr´] Pronunciation Key, 1820–83, Bourbon claimant to the French throne, posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry.
His grandfather, Charles X, abdicated in his favor during the Revolution of 1830, and he is known to the legitimists as Henry V, although he never held the throne.
In 1832 his mother, Caroline de Berry, unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Louis Philippe.
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 The Renunciations of 1713
The Renunciations of 1713 by Felipe V, the duc d'Orléans and the duc de Berry
The archduke Charles conquered Madrid in 1707, France was routed out of Italy and the Low Countries; but in 1710 Madrid was retaken for Felipe V and an invasion of France halted.
Thus, the foundation for the new European peace was to be a cross-renunciation of Felipe V to his French rights, and of the French princes (the duc de Berry, younger brother of Felipe V, and the duc d'Orléans, potential heir through Anna of Austria) to their Spanish rights.
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 Dauphin - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The title of Dauphin du Viennois descended in his family till 1349, when Humbert II sold his seigneurie, called the Dauphiné, to King Philippe VI on condition that the heir of France assumed the title of le Dauphin.
The last was the Duc d'Angoulême, son of Charles X, who renounced the title in 1830.
Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie (future titular Louis XVII of France) 1789-1791 (in 1791 his title was changed to "Prince Royal")
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 Special Collections - Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry
ean, Duc de Berry, was born in 1340, the third son of King John the Good of France.
His brother Charles became King Charles V of France, and his brothers, Louis and Philippe, became the Dukes of Anjou and Burgundy respectively.
riginally the Duc de Berry and the Limbourgs decided on a classical design of full-page miniatures with three to four lines of text at the bottom of the page and smaller miniatures the width of the columns.
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 Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The chateau in the background is that of Lusignan, one of the Duc's favourites.
Jean de Berry was one of the highest nobles in 15th-century France - his brothers were King Charles V, the Duc d'Anjou and the Duc de Bourgogne, and his nephews were King Charles VI and the Duc d'Orleans.
Amongst the more unusual colours they used were vert de flambe, a green obtained from crushed flowers mixed with massicot, and azur d'outreme, an ultramarine made from crushed Middle Eastern lapis-lazuli, used to paint the brilliant blues.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 682
Charles de Bourbon, Duc d'Alencon was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Berry and Marie Louise Elizabeth d'Orléans.
Charles Ivor Angus Burt is the son of Ivor B. Burt.
Louise Marie d'Orléans was the daughter of Louis d'Orléans, Duc d'Orléans and Auguste Marie Prinzessin von Baden-Baden.
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 artnet.com: Resource Library: Jean de Laval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He is documented in the service of Charles, Duc de Berry, and, on one occasion, working for his older brother, King Louis XI.
In May and September 1464 Laval is also mentioned in a royal account as ‘peintre de Mgr le duc de Berry’; when he painted a scarlet war pennant for the captain of Louis XI’s guard.
In his testimony, however, Guillemer claimed to have been illuminator to Charles d’Anjou, Comte de Maine (uncle and godfather of Charles of France), and to have sought Anjou’s recommendation so that he might be granted a commission by Charles of France for a Breviary.
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 LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY
He was inevitably involved in politics as a result of his position and was identified with the Armagnac anti-Burgundian faction, as a result of which his property was attacked on several occasions by pro-Burgundian mobs.
MAY The May jaunt, a pageant celebrating the "joli mois de Mai" in which one had to wear green garments known as livree de mai.
JUNE Harvest time - the peasants are moving the meadow in unison, with the Hotel de Nesle, the Duc's Parisian residence, in the background.
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 Hundred Years War Timeline 1411 - 1421   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jean Duc de Bourgogne, by virtue of a purge of the royal administration and some well placed gifts (most notably to the Guild of Butchers), gains control of Paris.
The Armagnacs, led by Charles V's last surviving brother the Duc de Berry, raise an army and blockade the city.
The Earl of Arundel leads 800 men-at-arms and 2,000 archers to the aid of the Duc de Bourgogne, who has offered the hand of his daughter for the Prince of Wales, four towns in Flanders and help in conquering Normandy in return for said aid.
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 Bourbon, Charles I, 5e duc de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
After having rendered notable services to Charles VII of France, he turned about and became—with Jean II, duke of Alençon—the leader of the short-lived Praguerie (1440), a revolt of nobles nominally led by the Dauphin (the future Louis XI).
Berry, Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de (duke of)
Biography of Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, the French nationalist and statesman who led his country during World War II and became the president of fifth republic of France.
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 Rois de France en Val de Loire
Charles VII est né en 1403, c'est le fils de Charles VI et d'Isabeau de Bavière, il épouse Marie d'Anjou en 1422.
Charles le Téméraire est vaincu par les Suisses à Granson et Morat en 1476 et il est tué en faisant le siège de Nancy le 5 janvier 1477.
Au delà de sa politique étrangère très aventureuse, Louis XII a su gouverner le Royaume de manière sage, bien conseillé par le le Cardinal Georges d'Amboise et Florimond Robertet.
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 Berry, Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
duke of Bourbon (from 1488) and seigneur de Beaujeu (from 1474).
Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de (duchess of)
Trained in his youth for government service, Ferdinand de Lesseps spent 24 years as a French diplomat; but it was his success in building the Suez Canal that earned him worldwide fame.
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 Charles X, king of France
Charles X, 1757 – 1836, king of France (1824–30); brother of King Louis XVI and of King Louis XVIII, whom he succeeded.
Among the many attempts of Charles and Villèle to reestablish elements of the ancien régime, as the prerevolutionary order is called, the law (1825) indemnifying the émigrés for lands confiscated during the Revolution and measures increasing the power of the clergy met with particular disapproval.
However, the duc d'Orléans, whom Charles had appointed lieutenant general of France, was chosen “king of the French” as
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 Duc de Berry - Folio 10v   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The view is from the vicinity of the Hôtel de Nesle, the Duc de Berry's Paris residence, from approximately the same vantage point as in the month of June.
Before us is the imposing mass of the Louvre of Charles V, the Duc de Berry's brother, as seen from the windows of the Duke's hôtel; it is rendered so scrupulously that we can make out its every detail.
But we can see the three other corner towers: to the right is the Tour de la Taillerie; then the eastern facade protected by twin towers whose outline is also visible on the courtyard paving; farther to the left is the Tour de la Grande Chapelle, followed by the southern facade, also with double towers.
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 Encyclopedia: French History: Biographies
Angoulême, Charles de Valois, comte d'Auvergne, duc d'
Chambord, Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné, comte de
Nemours, Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans, duc de
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 Provinces of France to 1791
In 1555, the first maîtres de requêtes, later renamed intendants, were appointed.
duc d'Aumale, comte d'Eu 4 Dec 1755 - 8 Aug 1788 Louis-François Armand de (b.
duc d'Aumale, comte d'Eu 27 Jul 1775 - 1785 Louis-Antoine de Gontaut, (b.
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 The French Restoration 1814 - 1848
The ultraroyalists, led by Louis's brother, the Comte d'Artois (later King Charles X), triumphed after the assassination of the count's son, Charles Ferdinand, Duc du Berry.
However, the Duc d'Orléans, whom Charles had appointed Lieutenant-General of France, was chosen as "King of the French." He reigned as Louis Philippe.
Born in Paris, Louis-Philippe, as the son of Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d'Orléans (known as "Philippe Égalité"), descended directly from King Louis XIII.
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