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  Louis of Naples - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis I., duke of Anjou and count of Maine (1339-1384), was the second son of John II., king of France, and was born at Vincennes on the 23rd of July 1339.
Anjou's entrance into the troubled politics of Italy was one result of the papal schism which opened in 1378.
Louis II., duke of Anjou (1377-1417), born at Toulon on the 7th of October 1377, took up the struggle for Naples after his father's death and was crowned king by Clement VII.
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  René I of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis II died in 1417, and his sons, together with their brother-in-law, afterwards Charles VII of France, were brought up under the guardianship of their mother.
The elder, Louis III, succeeded to the crown of Sicily and to the duchy of Anjou, René being known as the Count of Guise.
However, he died, apparently by poison, at Barcelona on December 16, 1470; the Duke's eldest son Nicholas perished in 1473, also under suspicion of poisoning; René's daughter Margaret was a refugee from England, her son Prince Edward was murdered in 1471, and she herself became a prisoner, to be ransomed by Louis XI in 1476.
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 Louis III of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis III (1403 12 November 1434) was titular King of Naples 1417–1426, Count of Provence, Forcalquier, Piedmont, and Maine and Duke of Anjou 1417–1434, and Duke of Calabria 1426–1434.
He was the eldest son and heir of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.
However, Louis was engaged in a continual struggle with Alfonso V of Aragon, whom she had previously adopted to succeed her.
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 Ancestors of Robert C. Bradley: Index
Aquitaine, William III Duke (marriage to Agnes Countess of Burgundy) (i4169), b.969-d.1030
Bohemia, Bedrich, Duke of (marriage to Erszebet, Princess of Hungary) (i6169), b.1141-d.1189
Bretagne, Conan III Duke (marriage to Maud Duchess of Bretagne) (i5566), b.1096-d.1148
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 Louis XV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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:, and Philip, Duke of Anjou, soon to be confirmed as Philip V of Spain.
The young Louis XV was moved to the modern lodgings attached to the medieval fortress of Vincennes, located 7 km/4.5 miles east of Paris in the Forest of Vincennes, where the air was deemed more wholesome and healthy than in Paris.
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 Gaston, Duke of Orleans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Known at first as the duke of Anjou, he became duke of Orléans in 1626, and had nominal command of the army which besieged La Rochelle in 1628, having already entered upon that course of political intrigue which would occupy the remainder of his life.
Reconciled with his brother Louis XIII, he plotted against Richelieu in 1635, fled from the country, and then submitted to the king and the cardinal.
In 1643, on the death of Louis XIII, Gaston became lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and fought against Spain on the northern frontiers of France; but during the wars of the Fronde (1648 - 1653) he passed with great facility from one party to the other.
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 Angevin -> Second House of Anjou on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 was made count of Anjou by Louis, acquired Provence by marriage, and in 1266 was invested by the pope with the kingdom of Naples and Sicily as Charles I. Charles lost Sicily but retained Naples.
The Hungarian branch of Anjou began (1308) with Charles Robert (King Charles I of Hungary), a grandson of Charles II of Naples.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louis XIV
Louis XIV claimed, in 1673 and again in 1675, that the right of régale was his in all bishoprics of the kingdom.
Louis, on 14 September, 1693, declared that, to show his veneration for the pope, he ordered the declaration of 1682 to be held without effect in regard to religious policy.
Lastly, at the end of his reign, Louis ordered a new inquiry into the causes and the persistence of the heresy, and decreed, by the declaration of 8 March, 1715, that all Protestants who had continued to reside in the kingdom since 1685 were liable to the penalties of relapsed heretics unless they became Catholics.
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 Bourbons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1589, when Henri III died, the closest relative in main line was Henri de Bourbon, king of Navarre, of the Vendôme branch of Bourbon, who became Henri IV and placed the house of Bourbon on the throne.
Louis XIV's wife was Maria-Teresa of Austria, older sister of the king of Spain Carlos II.
On January 21, the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI, two rival services are held in Paris: the legitimists, headed by the duke of Anjou, go to the Chapelle Expiatoire (built by Louis XVIII in 1816 over the site of the grave of his brother) and the orleanists go to St. Nicolas du Chardonneret.
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 09aug06 - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
, Clodius Mellobaude, Duke of the East Franks b.311
, Conan, Earl of Richmond, Duke of Brittany
, Genebald Ragaise, Duke of the East Franks b.261
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 Articles - Louis II of Naples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Angevin French prince, Louis II of Anjou (1377–1417) was the rival of Ladislas as King of Naples.
Louis II was the son of Louis I of Anjou, King of Naples, and came into his Angevin inheritance, which included Provence, in 1384, with his rival Charles of Durazzo (father of Ladislas), of the senior Angevin line, in possession of Naples.
Louis II died at his chateau of Angers, the heart of Anjou; he is buried there.
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
King Louis VIII of FRANCE was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Paris, France (aka Louis the Lion) son of Philip Augustus.
Blanche (Blanca) of CASTILE Queen of France was born in 1185 in Burgos, Spain dtr of Alfonso IX of Castile.
Charles Duke of ANJOU Count of Provence was born about 1220 in France - son of Louis VIII.
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 Jean Gaston is often mentioned as being the son of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and brother of King Louis XIII of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jean Gaston is often mentioned as being the son of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and brother of King Louis XIII of France
Roger III (1124-1148) reconciliated in 1125 with the Trencavels.
Anjou died and Henri was the heir apparent to the throne of
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 Louis XIV's Wars (3)
Louis XIV's wife, Maria Theresa (sister of Charles II and daughter of Philip IV) died in 1683, but left a son.
Louis XIV accepted this arrangement to prevent encirclement by Hapsburg powers, and (the extremely odd) Philip acceded to the throne.
Louis XIV had an army of almost a quarter of a million men, and he maneuvered it as though about to start a new offensive war.
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 Timeline3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Louis XIV extends the advantages held by the Dutch in respect of French tariffs since 1678 to Britain, Denmark-Norway and the free Baltic cities of the Empire.
Louis makes it possible for his legitimised sons, the duke of Maine and the count of Toulouse, to succeed if the Orleans and Condé families should die out in the male line; both are declared princes of the blood.
Louis XIV's will, establishing a regency council of fourteen members, the president of which is to be his nephew, the duke of Orleans, on which his two legitimised sons shall have seat.
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 Louis-Philippe of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Paris, Louis-Philippe, as the son of Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans (known as "Philippe Égalité"), is descended from King Louis XIII.
After the abdication of Napoleon, and the restoration of the monarchy under his cousin King Louis XVIII Louis-Philippe returned to live in France, claiming sympathy with the liberated citizens of the country.
A small minority of Legitimists however insist on a nobleman of Spanish birth, Don Luis-Alfonso de Borbon, duke of Anjou (to his supporters, "Louis XX") as being the true Legitimist pretender.
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 Gaston, Duke of Orleans - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Known at first as the duke of Anjou, he was created duke of Orléans in 1626, and was nominally in command of the army which besieged La Rochelle in 1628, having already entered upon that course of political intrigue which was destined to occupy the remainder of his life.
On two occasions he was obliged to leave France for conspiring against the government of his mother and of Cardinal Richelieu; and after waging an unsuccessful war in Languedoc, he took refuge in Flanders.
In 1643, on the death of Louis XIII, Gaston became lieutenant-general of the kingdom, and fought against Spain on the northern frontiers of France; but during the wars of the Fronde he passed with great facility from one party to the other.
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 AllRefer.com - RenE (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
RenE[runA´] Pronunciation Key, 1409–80, king of Naples (1435–80; rival claimant to Alfonso V of AragOn and Ferdinand I of Naples), duke of Anjou, Bar, and Lorraine, count of Provence.
The second son of King Louis II of Naples, he was count of Guise when he married (1419) Isabella, heiress of Lorraine and Bar.
At the death (1434) of his brother, Louis III of Naples, he inherited Anjou, Provence, and the claim to the succession of Joanna II of Naples (d.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis I, king of Naples (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis I 1339–84, king of Naples (1382–84; rival claimant to Charles III), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, second son of John II of France.
In 1380, Joanna I of Naples adopted Louis as heir to the throne and to Provence, repudiating her first choice, Charles of Durazzo.
Supported by the antipope Clement VII (Robert of Geneva), Louis I invaded the kingdom, but his troops soon deserted, and he died shortly thereafter.
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 Time1c
1401 - Albert III (the Pious) (Albrecht), Duke of Bavaria-Munich, born.
1406 - Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and Earl of Dorset, born.
1424 - Wladyslaw III (Ulaszlo I) (Ladislaus of Varna), King of Hungary and Poland, born.
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 French Wars of Religion
After Catherine de Medici's son, Francois, Duke of Anjou, joined the Protestants with an army of his own, a treaty was made that gave the Huguenots freedom of worship throughout the country and legal equality with Catholics.
The treaty was greeted with consternation by the powerful Duke of Guise, a fanatical Catholic with designs on the throne of France who, as head of the House of Guise, formed the Catholic League (aka the Holy League).
The Duke of Mayenne, a brother of the Duke of Guise, was commander of the armed forces of the Catholic League.
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 Francis I of France - SFA Software Knowledgebase
Francis I, a member of the Valois Dynasty, was born at Cognac, Charente, the son of Charles d'Angoulême (1459 – January 1, 1496), 1st cousin of King Louis XII, and of Louise of Savoy (September 11, 1476 – September 22, 1531).
Because of the Salic Law that stated that women could not inherit the throne of France, the throne passed to Francis I at the death of Louis XII, as he was the descendant of the eldest surviving male line of the Capetian Dynasty.
While his two predecessors, Charles VIII and Louis XII, had spent much of their reigns concerned with Italy they did not much embrace the new intellectual movements coming out of it.
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 Louis III on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
1403-34, king of Naples (1417-34; rival claimant to Joanna II), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, son and successor of Louis II.
Louis had gained control of most of the kingdom when he died.
LOUIS, MO-- UNC begins to celebrate their victory as the North Carolina Tar Heels beat the Illinois Fighting Illini 75-70 in the Men's 2005 NCAA championship game in St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, A
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 HISTORY OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF BOURBON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pierre of France, Lord of Courtenay, yr son of Louis VI (d 1137), was father of Peter, Emperor of Constantinople (Byzantium), whose grd-son Philip, titular Emperor d spm 1283; the junior line of Courtenay became extinct in the male line 7 May 1730.
The Lordship of Bourbon was acquired by Robert of France, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), yr son of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) (1250-1318), by his marriage to Beatrice, dau and heiress of Jean of Burgundy (d 1268) and Agnes of Dampierre.
The Grand Dauphin’s yr son, Philippe of France, Duke of Anjou (b 19 Dec 1683; d 9 Jul 1746), became Philip V, King of Spain and the Indies 2 Oct 1700, and founded the House of Bourbon-Anjou.
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 Louis III --  Encyclopædia Britannica
duke of Anjou and Touraine, count of Maine and Provence, and titular king of Naples and Sicily (1417–34).
Advancing Angevin claims to the throne of Naples, Louis struggled with the Aragonese claimant Alfonso V, sometimes supported, sometimes opposed by the childless Queen Joan II of Naples (ruled 1414–35).
In appearance Louis XI was ugly and unkingly; in character he was unscrupulous and underhanded.
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 Louis I, king of Naples
Louis I, 1339–84, king of Naples (1382–84; rival claimant to
), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, second son of John II of France.
of Naples adopted Louis as heir to the throne and to Provence, repudiating her first choice, Charles of Durazzo.
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 LOUIS - Online Information article about LOUIS
Savoy, he was unable to drive his rival, Charles, duke of Durazzo, from Naples.
Aragon, and his.son was his successor, Louis III.
Louts III., duke of Anjou (1403—1434), born on the 25th of September 1403, made in his turn an See also:
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 Louis II, king of Naples
Louis II Louis II, 1377–1417, king of Naples (1384–1417), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, son and successor of Louis I of Naples.
Louis took possession of Naples in 1390, but he was ousted in turn by Lancelot in 1399.
Eventually Louis lost his Neapolitan support and had to retire.
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 Kings and Queens of England and the United Kingdom
Eleanor, daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine.
Margaret, daughter of René, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples and Sicily
George, son of Fredrick III of Oldenburg, King of Denmark
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