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Sep 20, 2024 · Charles de Valois, duke d’Angoulême was an illegitimate son of King Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet, chiefly remembered for his intrigues against King Henry IV and for his later military exploits, particularly as commander at the siege of La Rochelle in 1627.
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Sep 7, 2024 · Charles’s son and successor, Philip, count of Valois, became king of France as Philip VI in 1328, and thus began the Valois dynasty.
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Sep 27, 2024 · Of Toulouse - Until Alphonse, Count of Poitiers became Count of Toulouse in 1249, the County of Toulouse was a powerful vassal of France which was almost independent of France.
4 days ago · Angoulême (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ɡulɛːm] ⓘ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Occitan: Engoleime) is a small city in the southwestern French department of Charente, of which it is the prefecture. Located on a plateau overlooking a meander of the river Charente, the city is nicknamed the "balcony of the southwest".
Sep 20, 2024 · Marguerite was born in Angoulême on 11 April 1492, the eldest child of Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angoulême. [3] Her father was a descendant of Charles V , and would thus have been on the line of succession to the French crown by masculine primogeniture , if both Charles VIII and the presumptive heir, Louis, Duke of ...
2 days ago · Titled the Count of Artois, he was the grandson of Louis XV and the younger brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII. Married at the age of sixteen to Maria Theresa of Savoy, while leading a somewhat libertine lifestyle, he had two daughters who died in infancy and two sons, the Duke of Angoulême, who became Dauphin, and the Duke of Berry, assassinated in 1820.
Sep 6, 2024 · Philip Augustus. Philip’s outstanding achievement was to wrest control from the Plantagenets of most of the domains they held in France. Intervening in struggles between Henry II of England and his sons, Philip won preliminary concessions in 1187 and 1189.
