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 Jean Le Maingre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He became a page at the court of Charles VI of France, and at the age of 12 he accompanied Louis II, Duke of Bourbon in a campaign against Normandy.
At age 16 he was knighted by Louis on the eve of the Battle of Roosebeke (November 27, 1382).
Jean II Le Maingre (in Old French, Jehan le Meingre), called Boucicaut (August 28, 1366-1421) was marshal of France and a knight renowned for his military skill.
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 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Louis_I,_Duke_of_Bourbon
In 1310, Louis married Mary of Avesnes, daughter of John II of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and Holland.
Louis I of Bourbon, le Boiteux (Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, 1279 – January 29, 1342) was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon.
Louis was son of Robert, Count of Clermont and grandson of King Louis IX of France.
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 Marshal of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neufchatel and of Wagram, Duke of Valengin.
Louis, duke of Noailles ( 1713 - 1793), Marshal of France in 1775
Louis Nicolas Davout, Duke of Auerstaedt, Prince of Eckmühl ( 1770 - 1823), Marshal of France in 1804
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 Montpensier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis de Bourbon, the younger son of John and Marie, and by his descendants up to Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, the famous constable, who became duke of Bourbon by his marriage with his cousin,
Confiscated by King Francis I, the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de
Marie, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Montpensier, brought the duchy to her husband Gaston, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII, whom she married in
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 Louis I, Duke of Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His mother was Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon and grandaugther of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy.
Louis was son of Robert, Count of Clermont and grandson of King Louis IX of France.
In 1310, Louis married Mary of Avesnes, daughter of
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 Louis XV 1723-1774
Louis XV son of Louis, titular duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adelaide of Savoy was the great grandson of Louis XIV and, after a regency, acceded to the throne in 1723.
He hated the pomp and circumstance of court life and the real power was held first by the Duke de Bourbon, then by Cardinal de Fleury.
France was involved in three wars during Louis XV's reign.
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 Louis XIV [Definition]
Louis was in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism The term Gallican Church usually refers to the Roman Catholic Church in France from the time of the Declaration of the Clergy of France (1682) to that of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) during the French Revolution....
Louis XIV surrendered Luxembourg The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or Luxemburg is a small landlocked state in the north-west of the continental European Union, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium....
Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824....
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 Louis XI
At that time Charles of Charolais was an ardent supporter of the House of Lancaster, while Louis, although he had received the duke of Somerset, a personal friend of the count at the court, initiated diplomatic negotiations with Warwick.
The absence of the duke of Brittany from Louis's ceremony of coronation was not left unnoticed by the participants, the contemporaries considering that the former was in 'the king's disgrace'.
The castle of the dukes of Brittany in Nantes
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 House of Bourbon
The Boboruns fsrit became an imtapornt faimly in 1268, wtih the marraige of Robert, Cnuot of Clermont, sxtih son of king Lious IX of France, to Betraice of Burgundy, heeriss to the losdrhip of Bourbon.
The Bourbons first became an important family in 1268, with the marriage of Robert, Count of Clermont, sixth son of king Louis IX of France, to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon.
NEW ORLEANS- Fifteen bars on Bourbon Street, a tourist mecca in New Orleans, either hassled black customers more than white ones, or charged black "testers" more than white ones for the same drink, according to a study conducted following the uproar over the death of a black man at the hands of white bouncers.
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 USES AND ABUSES OF THE TITLES OF ANJOU AND ANJOU-DURAZZO
Don Enrique Pio de Borbon (1848-1894), eldest son of the former Duke of Seville, Infante Enrique, was himself made Duke of Seville and Grandee of Spain (Note 6) by the grace of King Alfonso XII on 1 July 1882, twelve years after the death of his father in a duel with the Duke of Montpensier.
Finally Louis XVI (1754-1793) styled himself Duke of Anjou while his father was still alive but upon his ascension to the throne he relinquished the title to his brother the Count of Provence who eventually became Louis XVIII (1755-1824).
Thus it would follow that in the case of the two dukes of Seville the lack of consent of the heads of the House of Bourbon invalidated their claims to the succesion of both Spain and France.
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 ORLEANISTS - LoveToKnow Article on ORLEANISTS
It took its name from the Orleans branch of the house of Bourbon, the descendants of the duke of Orleans, the younger brother of Louis XIV., who were its chiefs.
The second duke of Orleans, created in 1392, was Louis, a younger son of Charles V., whose heir was his son, the poet Charles of Orleans.
ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (13911465), commonly called Charles dOrlans, French poet, was the eldest son of Louis, duke of Orleans (brother of Charles VI.
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 BOURBON - LoveToKnow Article on BOURBON
The elder branches of the family had become ~xtinct, and their son Louis became duke of Bourbon in 1327.
The noble family of Bourbon, from which so many European kings have sprung, took its name from Bourbon lArchambault, chief town of a lordship which in the 10th century was one of the largest baronies of the kingdom of France.
The first of the long line of Bourbons known in history was Adhmar or Aimar, who was invested with the baronytowards the close of the 9th century.
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 The Bourbons
That title was the first one born by Robert, younger son of Louis IX and founder of the Bourbon branch, and was the usual title of the eldest son of the duc de Bourbon in the 14th and 15th c.
The latter seat is held by the count of Paris, the duke of Anjou was elected to the former in 1983, as next of kin of Louis XVI, upon which the count of Paris resigned in protest against the admission of the "so-called duke of Anjou".
The title of duke of Anjou was last granted by Louis XV to his grandson Louis-Stanislas-Xavier [later Louis XVIII] in 1785, was abolished by the effects of the decree of June 19, 1790 [abolishing all nobiliary titles].
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 Louis II, Duke of Bourbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis II of Bourbon (1337– 1410, Montlucon) was the third Duke of Bourbon.
He inherited the duchy from his father Peter I of Bourbon after his death in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
On August 19, 1371, he married Anna d'Auvergne (1358–1417), Countess of Forez and daughter of Beraud II, dauphin of Auvergne, and Countess of Forez, and they had four children:
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 Command of Louis XIV
LOUIS JOSEPH DUC DE VENDÔME Born July 1, 1654, died June 15, 1712, a French general under Louis XIV, fought for Philip V, French Bourbon heir to the Spanish throne, in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14).
In the successful battles of Freiburg im Breisgau (1644) and Nördlingen (1645) he served with the brilliant commander Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé; the lives of the two were thereafter intertwined.
In Flanders, Vendome was defeated (1708) by the duke of Marlborough at Oudenaarde.
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 The Bourbons
That title was the first one born by Robert, younger son of Louis IX and founder of the Bourbon branch, and was the usual title of the eldest son of the duc de Bourbon in the 14th and 15th c.
The latter seat is held by the count of Paris, the duke of Anjou was elected to the former in 1983, as next of kin of Louis XVI, upon which the count of Paris resigned in protest against the admission of the "so-called duke of Anjou".
The title of duke of Anjou was last granted by Louis XV to his grandson Louis-Stanislas-Xavier [later Louis XVIII] in 1785, was abolished by the effects of the decree of June 19, 1790 [abolishing all nobiliary titles].
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 Louis II - English
Louis II's father gave the Duke of Enghien, as the Great Condé was at first called, a complete and strict education: six years with the Jesuits at Bourges, as well as mathematics and horsemanship at the Royal Academy at Paris.
Louis II was betrothed to Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé (Cardinal de Richelieu's niece) This marriage would later have very unfortunate consequences on the physical and mental conditions of the Condé family.
Louis first saw action at the age of fifteen before the siege of Arras.
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 CHARLES VI. - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES VI.
The two elder sons of Charles VI., Louis, duke of Guienne, and John, duke of Touraine, died in 1415 and 1417, and Charles, count of Ponthieu, became heir apparent.
The relations between John the Fearless and the duke of Orleans became more embittered, and on the 23rd of November 1407 Orleans was murdered in the streets of Paris at the instigation of his rival.
Isabeau of Bavaria was freely accused of intrigue with the duke of Orleans.
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 Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond
These, after a long series of curious intrigues, were finally closed in 1674 by the veto of Louis XIV and the election of John Sobieski.
La Grande Mademoiselle, daughter of the duke of Orleans, persuaded the Parisians to act thus, and turned the cannon of the Bastille on Turenne's army.
About this time negotiations between the Poles, Cond and Louis were carried on with a view to the election, at first of Cond's son Enghien, and afterwards of Cond himself, to the throne of Poland.
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 BEAUJEU - LoveToKnow Article on BEAUJEU
Pierre de Bourbon was lord of Beaujeu in 1474, when he married Anne of France, daughter of Louis XI., and this is why that princess retained the name of lady of Beaujeu.
The title of comte de Beaujolais was borne by a son of Philippe Egalit, duke of Orleans, born in 1779, died in 1808.
Isabeau, daughter of this Humbert, married Renaud, count of Forez; and their second son, Louis, assumed the name and arms of Beaujeu.
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 Encyclopedia: Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans
Louis was son of King Charles V of France and Joanna of Bourbon and younger brother of Charles VI.
Valentina Visconti (died December 4, 1408) was the wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Charles VI of France.
In 1389, Louis married Valentina Visconti, daughter of Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan.
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 Duke of Nemours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Philippe III de Bourbon, 6th Duc d'Orléans et de Nemours ( 1773 - 1850) (became King of the French in 1830 as Louis-Philippe I) edit ]
In 1507 it was given by Louis XII of France to his nephew, Gaston de Foix, who was killed at Ravenna in 1512.
The title of duc de Nemours was afterwards given to Louis Charles, son of King Louis Philippe of France.
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 Articles - Louis XV of France
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.
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.
In 1721, Louis XV was betrothed to his first cousin, Marie-Anne-Victoire, daughter of Philip V of Spain.
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 Articles - Louis XVIII of France
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier was born on November 17, 1755 in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, the fourth son of Louis, dauphin de France, and grandson of King Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska.
Louis XVIII ( November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France and Navarre from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleon's return in the Hundred Days.
Louis XVIII died on September 16, 1824, and was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
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 History of France - free-definition
During the reign of Louis XIV ( 1643 - 1715), France was the dominant power in Europe, aided by the diplomacy of Richelieu's successor ( 1642 - 1661) Cardinal Mazarin and the economic policies ( 1661 - 1683) of Colbert.
Louis XVI 's reign ( 1774 - 1792) saw a temporary revival of French fortunes through intervention ( 1778 - 1783) in support of Britain's rebel American colonies.
The area around the lower Seine, ceded to Scandinavian invaders as the duchy of Normandy in 911, became a source of particular concern when duke William took possession of the kingdom of England in 1066, making himself and his heirs the king's equal outside France (where he was still nominally subject to the crown).
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 Encyclopedia: Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans
Having borne the title of Duke of Montpensier until his grandfather's death in 1752, he became Duke of Chartres, and in 1769 married Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre (b.1753-d.1821), daughter and heiress of Louis Jean Marie Duke of Penthièvre, grand admiral of France, and the richest heiress of the time.
Philippe Égalité was son of Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans, and of Louise Henriette of Bourbon-Conti, and was born at Château de Saint Cloud, in Saint-Cloud, France.
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans ( April 13, 1747 - November 6, 1793), called Philippe Égalité, was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the dynasty then ruling France.
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 Articles - Louis XIV of France
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson, the son of the duc de Bourgogne, succeeded to the throne and reigned as Louis XV.
Louis was in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism, a doctrine limiting the authority of the Pope in France.
Louis XIV and Philip V made peace with Great Britain and the United Provinces in 1713 with the Treaty of Utrecht.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocese of Orleans
In the vicinity of Orléans Duke Francis of Guise was assassinated 3 February, 1562.
On 21 July, 1455, her rehabilitation was publicly proclaimed at Orléans in a solemn procession, and before her death in November, 1458, Isabel Romée, the mother of Joan of Arc, saw a monument erected in honour of her daughter, at Tournelles, near the Orléans bridge.
Yves (1253-1303) studied civil law at Orléans, and Clement V also studied there law and letters; by a Bull published at Lyons, 27 January, 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a University.
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