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	Louis, Duke of Burgundy Information
		Louis, duke of Burgundy (August 16, 1682 - February 18, 1712) was the son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin and Maria Anna of Bavaria.
		Louis succeeded his father as heir (dauphin) to the throne of France after the death of the latter in 1711.
		As early as 1702, the 20-year-old duke of Burgundy was admitted by his grandfather Louis XIV in the High Council (Conseil d'en haut), in charge of secrets of State regarding religion, diplomacy, and war.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Louis,_Duke_of_Burgundy (428 words)

	Louis, Duke of Burgundy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis, duke of Burgundy (August 16, 1682 - February 18, 1712) was the son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin and Maria Anna of Bavaria.
		Louis succeeded his father as heir (dauphin) to the throne of France after the death of the latter in 1711.
		As early as 1702, the 20-year-old duke of Burgundy was admitted by his grandfather Louis XIV in the High Council (Conseil d'en haut), in charge of secrets of State regarding religion, diplomacy, and war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis,_Duke_of_Burgundy (460 words)

	Louis XV - LoveToKnow 1911
		and the third son of Louis, duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adelaide, princess of Savoy.
		The first son had died in 1705, and in 1712 the second son, the duke of Brittany, as well as his father and mother, was carried off by a mysterious disease.
		His first minister was the incapable duke of Bourbon, who in 1725 procured the repudiation of the Spanish princess, to whom the king had been betrothed, and his marriage to Maria Leszczynska, daughter of the exiled king of Poland, then resident in Alsace.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Louis_XV (1239 words)

	Louis XV of France - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis XV was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
		The Duke of Burgundy had two younger brothers: Charles, Duke of Berry, and Philip, Duke of Anjou, soon to be confirmed as Philip V of Spain.
		The eldest son, the Duke of Brittany, was bled repeatedly by doctors and died on March 8, 1712.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Louis_XV_of_France (3841 words)

	Charles, duke of Orleans - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARLES ORLEANS, DUKE OF (1391-1465), commonly called Charles d'Orleans, French poet, was the eldest son of Louis, duke of Orleans (brother of Charles VI.
		He was already duke of Orleans, for Louis had been assassinated by the Burgundians two years before (1407).
		He was actually released on the 3rd of November following, and almost immediately cemented his friendship with Duke Philip by marrying his niece, Mary of Cleves, who brought him a considerable dowry to assist the payment of his ransom.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles,_duke_of_Orleans (1035 words)

	Louis-Joseph, Duke of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis-Joseph-Xavier-François (October 22, 1781-June 4, 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.
		As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the dauphin.
		On his death the title of dauphin passed to his younger brother Louis-Charles (1785–1795), who would survive his father and die in prison at the age of ten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Louis-Joseph_of_France (295 words)

	[No title]
		(1393–1458), earl of Richmond, constable of France, and afterwards duke of Brittany, was the third son of John IV., duke of Brittany, and Joan of Navarre, afterwards the wife of Henry IV.
		In 1423 Arthur married Margaret of Burgundy, widow of the dauphin Louis, and became thus the brother-in-law of Philip the Good of Burgundy, and of the regent, the duke of Bedford.
		The peace concluded between the duke of Brittany and the English in September 1427 led to his expulsion from the court, where Georges de la Tremoille, whom he himself had recommended to the king, remained supreme for six years, during which Richmond tried in vain to overthrow him.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=4874 (683 words)

	The Miracle Child - Louis Xv Of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis XV was born at the Palace of Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
		Louis XV had an older brother, Louis, duke of Brittany, who was 3 years older than him.
		The eldest son, the duke of Brittany, was bled repeatedly by doctors and died on March 8, 1712.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO2696/louis-xv-of-france-the-miracle-child.html (850 words)

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		Nominoë snatched Brittany from the archdiocese of Tours on which she was suffragan; he founded the archdiocese of Dol, in order to establish a self governing Breton church which could continue and support the traditions of the Bretons.
		With the accession of the Monfort to the throne, Brittany was at the height of her power and of her thriving prosperity.
		François the 2nd, the duke of Brittany, was compelled to accept the clause of the Treaty which stated that his daughter, Anne, the only heiress of the Dukedom could marry only with the consent of the king of France.
	www.chez.com /buan1/history_of_brittany.htm (1553 words)

	Louis XIII of France
		Louis XIII's paternal grandparents were Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Johanna, archduchess of Austria.
		Louis XIII ascended to the throne of France in 1610, at the age of eight and a half, upon the assassination of his father.
		Under Louis XIII the Habsburgs were humiliated, the French nobility was firmly kept in line behind their King, and the special privileges granted to the Huguenots by his father were retracted.
	louis-xiii-of-france.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Louis_XIII_of_France (1459 words)

	The War In Brittany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As he was person ally indebted to the French king as well as to the duke, he sought rather to mediate, and in the spring of 1488 he sent ambassadors to both parties commissioned to use their utmost efforts to bring them to accord.
		The Duke of Orleans was taken prisoner, ovith a number of other eminent captains besides, and not less than 6000 men are said to have been slain, among whom were included Lord Woodville and nearly the whole of his English followers.
		On the death of the duke, Charles had sent her an embassy declaring his intention to observe the treaty signed in August; but as her feudal superior he claimed her wardship, and told her she must forbear calling herself duchess till the question of her right to the duchy had been settled by competent judges.
	tudorhistory.org /secondary/henry7/c5.html (5702 words)

	Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the United Kingdom the current dukes are HRH the Prince of Wales who is Duke of Cornwall and of Rothesay; HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) HRH the Duke of York (Prince Andrew) HRH the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard) and HRH the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		Under the November 20 1917 Letters Patent of King George V the titular dignity of Prince/Princess and style Royal Highness are restricted to the of a Sovereign the sons of a sons and the eldest living son of eldest son of a Prince of Wales.
		The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is styled Duke of Brabant.
	www.freeglossary.com /Duke (1306 words)

	Brittany,Bretagne France,French region of Bretagne,Brittany
		Brittany’s coast is both rugged and indented, composed of rocky land in the north and sandy, sun swept beaches in the south.
		Brittany is characterized by a large number of small villages, several small towns, one city and no large urban areas.
		Breton is spoken principally in the Brittany départements of Cotes-d’Armor, Finestere and Morbihan.
	www.french-at-a-touch.com /French_Regions/Brittany/brittany_5.htm (1743 words)

	Anne Of Brittany 1476-1514
		Louis, when he fled to Brittany, did not take her with him, and every writer is agreed that the pretty, precocious child whom he found there, and the dissatisfied husband, became the best of comrades.
		Louis answered instantly that all her wishes were sacred, and did, in fact, pay all the funeral expenses out of his private purse.
		In the one Anne consented to marry Louis so soon as his present marriage should be annulled in Rome, and in the second Louis agreed to give back to the duchess the two towns of Nantes and Fougeres, if by death or other impediment he should prove unable to marry her within a year.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles36/queens-3.shtml (8660 words)

	Louis XV
		Louis XV, King of France, was the great-grandson of Louis XIV and the third son of Louis, duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adelaide, princess of Savoy.
		Louis was thus unexpectedly brought into the line of the succession, and was only five years old when Louis XIV died.
		His first minister was the incapable duke of Bourbon, who in 1725 procured the repudiation of the Spanish princess, to whom the king had been betrothed, and his marriage to Marie Leszczynska, daughter of the exiled king of Poland, then resident in Alsace.
	www.nndb.com /people/835/000093556 (1125 words)

	Louis XV of France Summary
		In 1725 Louis XV was married to Marie Leszczynska, daughter of a claimant to the Polish throne.
		Louis XV was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
		The Duke of Bourbon was worried by the health of the young king, not so much out of concern for the king or the future of the dynasty, but in fact out of a desire to prevent the House of Orléans (of the late regent) from ascending the throne should the king die.
	www.bookrags.com /Louis_XV_of_France (8627 words)

	The Frog Blog of Louis la Vache: On this day: Louis XV Was Born, le 15 Février 1710
		French coin from 1719 with the image of Louis XV Louis XV was the son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and of Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy.
		The eldest son, the Duke of Brittany, was bled repeatedly by doctors and died on le 8 mars 1712.
		The young Louis XV was moved to the modern lodgings attached to the medieval fortress of Vincennes, located 7 kilometres east of Paris in the Bois de Vincennes, where the air was deemed more wholesome and healthy than in Paris.
	frogblog-lavache.blogspot.com /2006/02/on-this-day-louis-xv-was-born-le-15.html (7632 words)

	Port-Louis (Municipality, Morbihan, France)
		Brittany was occupied by the Romans for five centuries after the submission of the Venetes.
		A fortified post built in the VIth century was destroyed in 1250 by Duke Jean I de Brittany, who replaced it by walls enclosing the part of the city located on the left bank of the Blavet.
		King Philip II of Spain claimed for infant Isabel the throne of France and the Duchy of Brittany, saying she was the grand-daughter of King of France Henri II, himself grand-son of Duchess Anne of Brittany.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-56-pl.html (2733 words)

	Site Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Brittany was never entirely part of the Frankish Empire although it lost land in the reorganisation of the Breton March in 811.
		The unsuccessful rebellion of Duke Francis II against the French crown led to the absorption of Brittany into France after the accession of his daughter, Anne of Brittany, in 1488 until the French annexed it in 1491.
		The 16th and 17th century were generally peaceful in Brittany, but the region, never reconciled to centralized rule, became one of the early centres of revolt in 1789.
	www.jack-travel.com /Brittany/Text/Brittany_History.htm (601 words)

	Louis XIV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis XIV considered its construction one of the greatest achievements of his reign, which, along with the Chateau de Versailles, is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe, extolling a king and his country.
		Louis XIV aided James II in his attempt to regain the British crown, but the Stuart king was unsuccessful, losing his last stronghold in Ireland a year after the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
		Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson Louis, duc d'Anjou, the younger son of the duc de Bourgogne, and Dauphin upon the death of his grandfather, father and elder brother, succeeded to the throne and was to reign as Louis XV of France.
	louis-xiv.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Louis_XIV (8632 words)

	Arc11
		In 1726 the duke of Bourboa was displaced by the king's tutor, Bishop (afterwards Cardinal) Fleury, who exercised almost absolute power, for the king took little interest in affairs of state.
		(A. (1754-1793), king of France, was the son of Louis, dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV., and of Marie Joseph of Saxony, and was born at Versailles on the 23rd of August 1754, being baptized as Louis Augustus.
		Louis XVI was weak in character and mentally dull.
	www.angelfire.com /bug/theterror/ARC11.HTML (1990 words)

	Louis XV of France
		Louis XV was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
		The Duke of Burgundy had two younger brothers: Philip, Duke of Anjou, soon to be confirmed as Philip V of Spain, and Charles, Duke of Berry.
		The Duke of Bourbon was worried by the health of the young king, not so much out of concern for the king or the future of the dynasty, but in fact out of a desire to prevent the House of Orléans (of the late regent) from ascending the throne should the king die.
	louis-xv-of-france.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Louis_XV_of_France (8688 words)

	Angevin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A nephew of Richard I and John became (1196) duke of Brittany as Arthur I. From his sister and her husband, Peter of Dreux, a Capetian noble who became Duke Peter I of Brittany, the subsequent rulers of Brittany issued.
		The second house of Anjou was a cadet branch of the Capetians and originated with Charles, a younger brother of King Louis IX of France.
		Charles I’s son became king of Hungary and Poland as Louis I. Hungary passed to Louis’s daughter Mary and to her husband Sigismund (later Holy Roman emperor), and Poland passed to Ladislaus II of Poland, husband of Louis’s daughter Jadwiga.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/Angevin.html (644 words)

	The Richard III and Yorkist History Server (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis XI favoured him by staying at Argenton in November and December 1481, after a second bout of illness and Commynes joined the King on his journey to Saint-Claude in 1482.
		In this case, he was forced, in March 1486, to restore Talmont to Louis de la Trémoïlle, but already he had begun to side with enemies of the regents of the young Charles VIII, his sister, Anne, and her husband Pierre de Beaujeu, younger brother of John, duke of Bourbon.
		He shows how in 1465 Louis XI, far from keeping to an established plan in dealing with the uprising of the princes, in which he tried to avoid the hazards of battle at all cost, had seriously underestimated the strength of the opposition and the dangers facing him until it was almost too late.
	www.r3.org /bookcase/de_commynes/decom_1.html (13078 words)

	Legends and Romances of Brittany: Chapter I: The Land, the People and their Story
		The Brittany of to-day corresponds to the departments of Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Loire-Inférieure.
		But with this exception Brittany is a country of bleak shores and grey seas, barren moorland and dreary horizons, such a land as legend loves, such a region, cut off and isolated from the highways of humanity, as the discarded genii of ancient faiths might seek as a last stronghold.
		Duke Alain declared the paternity of his ward doubtful and favoured that party which desired to set him aside from the succession; but after the defeat of his faction at Val-ès-Dunes he died, apparently of poison, doubtless administered by the contrivance of the friends of William.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/lrb/lrb04.htm (5123 words)

	Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies
		The feud with Louis implied friendly relations with Germany, where Henry was helped by his mother's first marriage to the emperor Henry V but hindered by Frederick's maintenance of an antipope, the outcome of a disputed papal election in 1159.
		Duke Geoffrey Plantagenet de Brittany-[18630] was born on 9-23-1158 and died in 8-1186 in Paris, France at age 27.
		At the same time, Duke Conan was forced to surrender to Henry II for Geoffrey's use the whole duchy of Brittany except the county of Guingamp.
	www.livelyroots.com /kings/d8.htm (5028 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Louis, Dauphin of France (disambiguation)
		Louis, Dauphin of France (1682-1712), son of previous, grandson of Louis XIV, who is known as Louis, Duke of Burgundy
		Louis, Dauphin of France (1707-1712), son of previous, great-grandson of Louis XIV, died when 5 years old, who is known as Louis, Duke of Brittany
		Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the current legitimist Pretender to the French throne as Louis XX, was between 1984 and 1989 known by his supporters as Louis, Dauphin of France.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Louis,_dauphin_de_France (310 words)

	Dauphin - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Louis XI, the 8th holder of the title of Dauphin.
		Louis, formerly Duke of Anjou (future Louis XV of France) 1712â“1715
		One of them claims that he should be treated with deference, since he is really an impoverished English duke, and the other, not to be outdone, reveals that he is "really" the Dauphin ("Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marie Antoinette").
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Dauphin (538 words)

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