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  Louis
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Louis VI the Roman Louis VI the Roman (Bavaria and from 1351 to 1365 margrave and Brandenburg.
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 Charles III, Duke of Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles III of Bourbon-Montpensier, Eighth Duke of Bourbon (February 17, 1490 – 1527 in Rome) was Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne.
In 1505 he married Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, the heir-general of the House of Bourbon (to which he was the heir-male), and became Duke of Bourbon in her right.
By Suzanne, Charles was the father of a pair of twins and Francis of Bourbon, Count of Clermont.
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 Louis VIII
Louis VIII, King of France, eldest son of Philip Augustus and of Isabella of Hainaut, was born in Paris on the 5th of September 1187.
Louis was short, thin, pale-faced, with studious tastes, cold and placid temper, sober and chaste in his life.
In 1213 he led the campaign against Ferrand, count of Flanders; in 1214, while Philip Augustus was winning the victory of Bouvines, he held John of England in check, and was victorious at La Roche-aux-Moines.
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 WILLIAM OF SCOTLAND - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM OF SCOTLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The force under Louis of Nassau indeed gained a victory at Heiligerlee in Friesland (May 23rd), but met with a crushing defeat at the hands of Alva in person (July 2ist) at Jemmingen.
During the years 1569-1572 the brothers William and Louis, the one in Germany, the other in France, were, however, actively preparing for a renewal of the struggle for the freedom of the Netherlands.
Louis of Nassau immediately afterwards dashed with a small force from France into Hainault, and captured Valenciennes and Moris.
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 DAUPHIN - LoveToKnow Article on DAUPHIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The canting arms of a dolphin, which they quartered with the royal fleurs de lys, were originally assumed by Dauphin, count of Clermont, instead of the arms of Auvergne (the earliest extant example is appended to a deed of 1199), and from him they were borrowed by the counts of the Viennois.
It was also assumed by Guigue V., count of Forez (1203I 241), a descendant of Guigue Raymond of the Viennois, count of Forez, in right of his wife Ida Raymonde.
The eldest son of the French king was sometimes called the king dauphin (le roy daulphin), to distinguish him from the dauphin of Auvergne,who was known,since Auvergne became an appanage of the royal house, as the prince dauphin.
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 Royalty.nu - French Royal History - Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XIV and the French Monarchy by Andrew Lossky and Marie-Ellias Lossky.
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority by John Jeter Hurt.
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 72   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Louis I the Elder of Württemberg, Count of Württemberg
Louis I the Kelheimer, Duke of Bavaria Wittelsbach
Louis III of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria Wittelsbach
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 27th Generation (cont.)
Raymond Berenger IV, Count of Provence was born circa 1196 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône département, France and married Jun 05 1219 or Dec 1220 in Provence, France.
Simon de Dammartin II, Count of Aumâle and Montreuil was born circa 1180 in Dammartin-en-Goële (in the modern département of Seine-et-Marne).
Louis was the fourth child of King Louis VIII and his queen, Blanche of Castile, but, since the first three died at an early age, Louis, who was to have seven more brothers and sisters, became heir to the throne.
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 Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
Count Frontenac came of an ancient and noble race, said to have been of Basque origin.
At the age of fifteen, the young Louis showed an incontrollable passion for the life of a soldier.
He was sent to the seat of war in Holland, to serve under the Prince of Orange.
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 John, Duke of Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
John of Valois, the Magnificent, (November 30 1340 — March 15 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier.
Bonne of Berry (1365-1435), married Amadeus VII of Savoy and Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Mary of Berry, Duchess of Auvergne (1367-1434), married: 1) Louis III of Chatillon, Count of Dunois; 2) Philip of Artois, Count d'Eu; 3) John I, Duke of Bourbon
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal Court of Lotharingia (Burgundy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Louis de Montpensier, King of Lotharingia, is representing the duchy in the Directoire.
Louis le Germanique, formerly King of the Eastern Franks, was crowned King of Germania.
The Count Maximilien of Artois was the general in charged of the Royal Armies of Lotharingia and his son was in charge of the expeditionary forces that attacked Grenoble a few years earlier.
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 Louis de Buade, count de Palluau et de Frontenac --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
(count of Palluau and of) French courtier and governor of New France (1672–82, 1689–98), who, despite a record of misgovernment, managed to encourage profitable explorations westward and to repel British and Iroquois attacks on New France.
French military officer who was imprisoned by King Louis XIV to prevent him from marrying the Duchesse de Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle), the wealthiest heiress in Europe.
As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - - ARCHIVE - Royal Court of Lotharingia (Burgundy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Any noble of the rank of Count or better is generally considered a member of the Directoire, although the Directoire is permitted to expel a member for great crimes against the crown or the church, provided the crown approves.
Hermann Kastner, Count of Molsheim - Represents the Duchy of Alsace.
All of the sudden, Count Louis, extravagant hat and all, marches over to where the Regent and the Archbishop are standing, with an angry look on his soft-skinned face.
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 MERCURY (PLANET) - LoveToKnow Article on MERCURY (PLANET)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The estate of Mercceur in Auvergne, France, gave its name to a line of powerful lords, which became extinct in the i4th century, and passed by inheritance to the dauphins of Auvergne, counts of Clermont.
In 1426 it passed to the Bourbons by the marriage, of Jeanne de Clermont, dauphine of Auvergne, with Louis de Bourbon, count of Montpensier.
It formed part of the,confiscated estates of the Constable de Bourbon, and was given by Francis I. and Louise of Savoy to Antoine, duke of Lorraine, and his wife, Renee de Bourbon.
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 Louis de Buade, count de Palluau et de Frontenac --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica ...
Despite Louis XIV's policy of curbing expansion into the interior in order to strengthen the central colony, old fur-trading posts were strengthened and new posts established by Frontenac until French influence extended beyond Lake Superior, and the flood of furs coming down to Montreal glutted the market in France.
His connections at the court of Louis XIV enabled him to survive failures that might have destroyed another man and won him credit for the achievements of his subordinates.
It was, however, under his regime that the English and Iroquois attacks on New France were finally repulsed and the French extended their North American empire from Montreal to Lake Winnipeg and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
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 The Romagna campaign of 1494
Courtier and related by marriage to Count Caiazzo, commander of the Milanese force in the Romagna, wrote a letter on 10 August to her brother, joint-ruler of Carpi, providing the details he requested of the Neapolitan force; she sent a man specifically to the camp to get them.
Then, too, Count Caiazzo's force could not be ignored, as it was likely to attack the rear of the Neapolitan army should it advance.
Her husband was Count Antonio da Montefeltro, Duke Guidobaldo's half-brother; she was writing from the fief of Sant'Agata Feltria (held by Agostino Fregoso, who had married Gentile, half-sister of Duke Guidobaldo).
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 HISTORY OF THE LINE OF ORLEANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Following the revolution of 1848, he abdicated in favor of his grandson the Count of Paris 24 Feb 1848.
Louis-Philippe, Count of Paris proclaimed himself Head of the Royal House of France following the death of Henri V, Count of Chambord (see above), on the basis of the validity of the renunciations of 1712-13, on 29 Aug 1883, but was exiled from France 24 Jun 1886.
Members of this line have the title of Prince or Princess of Orléans with the qualification of Royal Highness; the issue of the Head of the House use the titles Prince or Princess of France.
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 Articles - John, Duke of Berry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
He acted several times as a peace maker between French factions and is notable by his attempts of peace between his nephews Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans and John, Duke of Burgundy.
Bonne of Berry (1365–1435), married Amadeus VII of Savoy and Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Marie of Berry, Duchess of Auvergne (1367–1434), married: 1) Louis III of Chatillon, Count of Dunois; 2) Philip of Artois, Count of Eu; 3) John I, Duke of Bourbon
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 LOUIS VIII - Encyclopedia Britannica - LOUIS VIII - JCSM's Study Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
These claimsthat John had forfeited the crown by the murder of his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, and that the English barons had the right to dispose of the vacant thronelost their plausibility on the death of King John and the accession of his infant son as Henry III.
Philip II., suspicious of his son until the close of his life, took precautions to assure his obedience, narrowly watched his administration in Artois, which Louis held from his mother Isabella, and, contrary to the custom of the kings of France, did not associate his son with him by having him crowned.
While passing the Auvergne on his return to Paris, he was stricken with dysentery, and died at Montpensier on the 8th of
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 Louis de Buade, count de Palluau et de Frontenac --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Louis de Buade, count de Palluau et de Frontenac
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 Greg Bard's Genealogical Records
Adalbert I, Count of Windberg (abt 1057 - 21 Jun 1100) Birth: Tulln, Niederosterreich, Austria
Bruno, Count of Arneburg and Querfort (abt 881 - 19 Oct 1009)
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 Count explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
:''This page is about the European nobility; for the baseball term, see count (baseball).'' A count is a nobleman in various European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl.
When the to the shrine of Saint Roch.[Footnote: Babeau, _Les Bourgeois_, guild, the writing-masters another, and neither was allowed to infringe appointed by the clergy, but the municipal government kept a certain while that of girls was almost entirely entrusted to Sisters.
In many The law making it so had been passed under Louis XIV., for the purpose this law was not always enforced.
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 Montpensier . France . 14th century . Francis I of France . La Roche-sur-Yon . Anne, Duchess of Montpensier . ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The France French lordship of Montpensier départment of Puy-de-Dôme, became a countship in the 14th century.
Confiscated by King Francis I of France Francis I, the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and to her son Louis 1513-1582, and was
The clashes of 1830 and 1848 between the Legitimists and the Orleanists over who was the valid monarch had its epilogue in the 1870s when, after the fall of the Empire, the...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Orleans
He was a native of Havana, born 3 April, 1719, and had been educated by the Jesuits of his native city, receiving his degree in the university in 1771.
Laval was made vicar-general and rector of the St. Louis Cathedral on 21 April, and Very Rev. James H. Blenk was appointed Bishop of Porto Rico and consecrated in the St. Louis Cathedral with Archbishop Barnada of Santiago de Cuba, 2 July, 1899.
In the summer of 1905, while the archbishop was administering confirmation in the country parishes, yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, and, deeming it his duty to be among his people, he returned immediately to the city.
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 Guide to Historical Salem | Vol. 6 No. 2
He was Louis Phillippe, exiled duc d'Orleans, who had deserted France in 1793 to escape the excesses of the French revolution and spent more than three years traveling in America.
His party, which included his two brothers, the Count de Montpensier and Count Beaugolis, passed through this area April 19-20, 1797 &endash; five years before Salem became a town.
Louis Philippe did say something nice, however, about the country to the immediate west &endash; Bent Mountain and the Shawsville area-- where he traveled after leaving Mr.
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 The Nation, 11/26/1885 - The Revolt of The Constable of Bourbon
The episode of the rebellion of the Constable of Bourbon is one of the subjects which have been treated with the greatest care by M. Paulin Paris in his "Studies on Francis the First." Charles of Bourbon, born in 1490, was the second son of Gilbert of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier, and Dauphin of Auvergne.
His eldest brother died; and having married at the age of sixteen Suzanne de Bourbon, he became Duke of Bourbonnais and Auvergne, and possessor of domains as large almost as those of the ancient dukes of Burgundy.
...she had a real love.' It was shown -when, at the beginning of the reign of Francis I., she gave the sword of Constable to the young cadet of the Montpensiers...
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 AllRefer Encyclopedia - French History, Biographies Encyclopedia
• Elizabeth, sister of King Louis XVI of France
Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon
• Peter I, duke or count of Brittany
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 Prince Louis Phillippe D'orleans Count Of Paris / Princess Isabella D'orleans Of Bourbon-orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Prince Louis Phillippe D'orleans Count Of Paris / Princess Isabella D'orleans Of Bourbon-orleans
Father: Duke Anton D'orleans Duke Of Montpensier Mother: Princess Louise De Burbon Of Spain
Name: Louis Philip Duke Of Orleans Born: 1869 Died: 1926 Wife: Mary Dorothea Of Austria
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