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  History Channel Search Results
A brother of Louis XIV, Philippe I (1640–1701), duc d'Orléans, was the founder of the collateral branch of Bourbons known as the house of Orléans.
A grandson of Louis XIV, Philippe, duc d'Anjou, became Philip V of Spain, the founder of the Spanish house of Bourbon.
After the overthrow of Charles X in the July Revolution of 1830, Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans, was proclaimed king of the French by the Orleanists, a party that supported the claim of the house of Orléans to the throne of France.
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 Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born at Versailles, the eldest son of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1668-1710) and Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes (1673-1743), an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France.
On Louis XV choosing de Bourbon:] In making the choice, which no doubt was not the best he might have made, because he lacked the necessary experience not only of men but of himself, he nevertheless acted in strict accordance with the rules of etiquette.
A motive for Mme de Prie was that if she made the changes, and they ended up working to M le Duc's advantage, this would increase his appreciation for her, and make more solid her position as his mistress.
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 The 'Companions' of Jeanne d'Arc
and Others
Charles I de Bourbon died of gout in 1456.
De Bueil served with distinction in the final reconquest of Normandy, and in 1450 he was appointed admiral of France [after Coëtivy was killed at the siege of Cherbourg in the same month], and he received the Norman vicomté of Carentan.
Charles d'Orléans' release in 1440 from English captivity was largely an initiative of the duc de Bourgogne, Philippe 'the good', whose father, Jean 'the fearless' had had Charles' father (Louis I d'Orléans) assassinated in 1407 -- one of the main causes of the Burgundian-Armagnac civil war.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bourbon, Charles, duc de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
BOURBON, CHARLES, DUC DE [Bourbon, Charles, duc de], 1490-1527, constable of France and governor of Milan.
He distinguished himself at the battle of Marignano (1515) in the Italian Wars between King Francis I and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Enmity, encouraged by the queen mother, Louise of Savoy, arose between King Francis I and the duke, who went over to the emperor, after long negotiations, in 1523.
Addressing la ville des dieux: entry ceremonies and urban audiences in seventeenth-century Dijon.
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 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: DeGraff
He married Jeanne de Auvergne, a descendant of the Counts of Auvergne, the same year, and resided in the l'Archimbault country until 1572, when he went to Paris along with the others of the Huguenot leaders of France, and was killed at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.
He was aide to Henri de Bourbon, who later became Henri IV, King of France, and his confidential friend and adviser, and fought by his side through the long battles between Catholics and Huguenots in the latter part of the fifteenth century.
Beatrice de Bourbon, born June 17, 1599, was killed in the defense of La Rochelle, 1628; married Duc de Rohen, one of the Huguenot leaders at this defense.
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 Great Officers of the Crown
Charles de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1571-1640), from 1588 to 1594
Charles de Lorraine, duc d'Aumale (1526-73), from 1556 to 1573
Charles de Lorraine, duc de Mayenne (1554-1611), from 1563 to 1589
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 Charles VII, King of France (1403-1461)
It was not until after the victory of Charles VII's army at the battle of Baugé (1421) that Isabeau, who was now fully beholding to the English for support and was strongly intimidated by Philippe 'the Good', duc de Bourgogne, began to refer to her son as 'the so-called dauphin'.
Charles was betrothed to Marie d'Anjou, daughter of Louis II, duc d'Anjou and Yolande d'Aragón.
Charles met with the duc de Bourgogne, Jean 'the Frearless', on a bridge at Montereau.
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 Bourbon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bourbon, name of a family of French origin, members of which became rulers of several European countries.
Bourbon, Charles, Duc de, called the Constable de Bourbon (1490-1527), French nobleman and military commander, prominent in the European wars of the...
Condé, Louis II, Prince de, called the Great Condé (1621-86), French general, who led the nobles against the Crown in the last revolt of the...
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 Bourbon Charles Duc de - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Condé, Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de (1530-1569), founder of the house of Condé and a Huguenot leader, youngest son of Duc Charles de Bourbon, born...
Broglie, Achille Charles Léonce Victor, 3rd Duc de (1785-1870), French statesman.
Achille Charles Léonce Victor de Broglie was born in Paris.
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 Burgundy
In 1276 a Bourbon heiress, Béatrix de Bourbon (died 1310), a direct descendant of Aimar, married Robert de France, comte de Clermont, sixth son of the Capetian king Louis IX.
A brother of Louis XIV, Philippe I (1640-1701), duc d'Orléans, was the founder of the collateral branch of Bourbons known as the house of Orléans.
Charles the Bold (1433-77), last duke of Bourgogne, the son of Philip the Good, duke of Bourgogne, and Isabella of Portugal, born in Dijon.
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 Houe of Bourbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Its members were descended from Louis I, duc de Bourbon from 1327 to 1342, the grandson of the French king Louis IX (ruled 1226–70).
The Bourbon Duchy of Lucca (1815–47), on the other hand, was a creation of the Congress of Vienna: having assigned Parma to Napoleon's estranged consort Marie-Louise for her lifetime, the Congress had to find some alternative compensation for the still-dispossessed Bourbons.
The Bourbons of Parma and of the Two Sicilies were dethroned in 1859–60, in the course of the unification of Italy under the House of Savoy.
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 The Rank/Title of Prince in France
To the house of Montglat in 1694, the comte de Chiverny in 1718 (EdlF).
Charles de Bourbon saw that he would not get a fair hearing and betrayed the king of France, entering the service of Charles V. On Jan 16, 1523 he was declared guilty of leze-majesty, his feudal possessions forfeited to the crown and his personal estate confiscated.
Charles de Coetivy is styled prince of Mortagne in 1487.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bourbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bourbon BOURBON [Bourbon], European royal family, originally of France; a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
Bourbon, Charles, duc de BOURBON, CHARLES, DUC DE [Bourbon, Charles, duc de], 1490-1527, constable of France and governor of Milan.
The name was first borne by Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530-69, Protestant leader and general.
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 AllRefer.com - Bourbon : The French Bourbons (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Robert of Clermont, sixth son of Louis IX of France, married (1272) Beatrice, heiress of Bourbon, and is considered the founder of the line.
The marriage (1548) of Antoine de Bourbon, duc de VendOme, with Jeanne d'Albret added vast territories in S France (see Albret) and the title king of Navarre to his other fiefs (VendOme, PErigord, Rouergue).
With the death (1883) of Henri, comte de Chambord, grandson of Charles X, the senior French branch of Bourbon came to an end.
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 Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He served as a page to Charles I of Savoy, until Charles VIII of France, promoted him to be one of the royal followers under the seigneur (count) de Ligry (1487).
In 1494 he accompanied Charles VIII into Italy, and was knighted after the Battle of Fornovo (1495), where he had captured a standard.
On the accession of Francis I in 1515 Bayard was made lieutenant-general of Dauphiné; and after the victory of Marignan, to which his valour largely contributed, he had the honour of conferring knighthood on his youthful sovereign.
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 Sack of Rome -- May 6, 1527: There are games in which the little guys just get run over by the big guys
Charles V is often blamed for the sack of Rome, but it was a lot more complicated than that.
Charles V eventually also ran short of funds and couldn't pay the big, mostly German, mercenary and regular armies that the Constable was running for him in northern Italy.
Charles, Duc de Bourbon, the first as Constable of France and later simply Duc de Bourbon: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=16170.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg634 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Elizabeth De Salmesbury was born in 1256 in,Salmesbury,Lancastershire,England.
Robert De Holand III was born in Holland,Lincolnshire,.
I. Marguerite De Burgundy Queen Of France [Parents] was born in 1290 in,Dijon,Cote D'or,France.
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 Plus + Ultra » Profiles in Royalty: The House of Bourbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The first Bourbon to achieve royal rank was Henry IV, King of France (also Henry III of Navarre.) Through his father, Antoine de Bourbon (1518-62), duc de Vendôme, Henry was related to the younger son of Louis, 1st duc de Bourbon.
Charles IV was deposed by Napoleon in 1808, but in 1814 his son Ferdinand VII restored the Bourbon throne.
It was instigated by Gaston d’Orleans, Frédéric-Maurie de Tour d’Auvergne, duke of Bouillon, the viscount of Turenne, the duke of Longueville, and the grandson of Louis de Nevers, a former Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.
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 Phillipe I (1640-1701)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
first of the last Bourbon dynasty of dukes of Orléans; he was the younger brother of King Louis XIV (reigned 1643–1715), who prevented him from exercising political influence but tolerated him as an overtly respected and covertly despised figure at court.
The son of King Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, Philippe was titled duc d'Anjou until he succeeded his uncle Gaston de France as duc d'Orléans in 1660.
Orléans married (March 1661) his cousin Henrietta, sister of King Charles II of England, but he soon avoided her and became involved in a succession of homosexual relationships.
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 thePeerage.com - Paul-Annik Weiller and others
She is the daughter of Henri Albert Gabriel de Bourbon, Grand-Duc de Luxembourg and Maria-Teresa Mestre y Batista.
She was the daughter of Ferdinand Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Berry and Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Louise di Borbone, Principessa dei Due Sicilie.
     Friederike Luise Gräfin Reuss zu Köstritz was the daughter of Heinrich VI Graf Reuss zu Köstritz and Henrica Casado de Monteleone.
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 Cardiff Corvey Articles, XII.1: I. HEUER. ‘Shadows of Beauty, Shadows of Power’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He was born as Arnaud, the illegitimate eldest son of the Marquis de Souvricourt and his lover, a nun who has left her order.
Charles E. Robinson’s source study ‘The Devil as Doppelgänger in The Deformed Transformed: The Sources and Meaning of Byron’s Unfinished Drama’, Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970), 177—202, emphasises the pride of Pickersgill’s protagonist and quotes from the novel’s transformation scene (p.
In May 1527, Rome was under siege from the imperial troops under the command of Charles, duc de Bourbon (1490—1527).
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 AllRefer.com - Bourbon, Charles, duc de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Bourbon, Charles, duc de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Bourbon, Charles, duc de[shArl, dUk du bOOrbON´] Pronunciation Key, 1490–1527, constable of France and governor of Milan.
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 thePeerage.com - Name Index 196
Alexandra Josephine Teresa Charlotte Marie Wilhelmine de b.
Ana Margarita Marie Elvire, Princesse de Bourbon b.
Charles Frederic Louis Guillaume Marie, Prince de Luxembourg b.
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 Richard III Society, Cely Papers 4
Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège, murdered by William de la Mark, the Wild Boar of the Ardennes, 1482.
The Bishop was the fifth son of Charles I., Duc de Bourbon and d'Auvergne.
He was first-cousin and brother-in-law to Charles the Bold, but nearly as closely connected to Louis, for his elder brothers, Jean II.
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 Bourbon, Antoine De - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Bourbon, Antoine de, 1518-62, duc de Vendôme, king of Navarre through his marriage to Jeanne d'Albret
It miscarried, and Antoine was forced to hand Condé over to Catherine de' Medici.
Upon the death of Francis II in Dec., 1560, Antoine renounced his right to the regency for the minor Charles IX in return for Condé's release; he was awarded the prestigious but powerless position of royal lieutenant general.
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 Langued'oc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gabriel was the uncle of Charles Maurice Talleyrand, the famous French statesman and diplomat.
A large County in western France, lying along the south bank of the Loire, roughly equivalent to the modern Départements of Vendée, Deux-Sevres, and Vienne.
Maréchal Louis Antoine de Gontaut, duc de Biron...1775-1785 d.
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 Callaway Family Association - William Thomas Callaway/Kellaway
Sophie from the age of 6, William at 4, and Charlotte at the age of 3.
After his death in 1830, she was charged with his murder, but escaped the guillotine (the King retired the judge), to return to London with a substantial inheritance, and die a respected philanthropist, in1840.
Their baby Doris was buried there by Alfred Charles Kellaway, whose youngest son died years later at Upwey.
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 Bourbon: The French Bourbons
A younger son of Louis, 1st duc de Bourbon, gave issue to the line of Bourbon-Vendôme. The marriage (1548) of Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, with Jeanne d'Albret added vast territories in S France (see
From Antoine's brother, Louis I de Condé, the houses of
With the death (1883) of Henri, comte de
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Alnwick, Sir Henry De Percy IV Baron Percu Of [Lord] b.1301
Audley, Hugh De 8th Earl Of Goucester b.1289
Berkeley/ B, Maurice I Magnanimous de Berkeley b.1281
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 [TMP] New Hundred Years War Flags from GMB
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HYE 10 - John de Vere (The Earl of Oxford)
HYF 14 - Waleran De Raineval (Comte De Fauquembergues)
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