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Topic: Claude of Valois

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Valois Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Valois Dynasty succeeded the Capetian Dynasty as rulers of France from 1328-1589.
		They were descendants of Charles of Valois, the third son of King Philip III and based their claim to be ahead of Edward III of England on a reintroduction of the Salic law.
		The term "Valois Dukes of Burgundy" is employed to refer to the dynasty which began after a member of the Royal family (Philip, son of King Jean II), was given the Duchy of Burgundy.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Valois_Dynasty (173 words)

	FRANCIA
		The understanding was that Brittany would be enfeoffed to a junior line; but after Anne's daughter Claudia (Claude) died in 1524, her husband, King Francis I, kept the Duchy and incorporated it into the Royal domain in 1532.
		Encompased by the Papal enclave was the Principality of Orange, independent until 1713, significant as one source of the house that would come to champion and then rule the Netherlands.
		Although the Orléans and Angoulême Kings are usually still considered part of the House of Valois, they were nevertheless more distantly related to the last Kings of the main succession than Philip VI was to the last Capetians.
	www.friesian.com /francia.htm (14313 words)

	webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
		Born at Cognac, France, on September 12, 1494, Francis represented the Angoulême branch of the Valois dynasty, succeeding Louis XII, the last of the Orleanist branch, in 1515.
		His first wife was Louis XII's daughter Claude.
		He employed the scholar Guillaume Budé in creating a royal library and in founding professorships of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, which formed the nucleus of the later Collège de France.
	www.bementfamily.com /webged/bement.wbg/wga29.html (4649 words)

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