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1 day ago · Louis Philippe was born in the Palais-Royal, the residence of the Orléans family in Paris, to Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres (Duke of Orléans, upon the death of his father Louis Philippe I), and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon.
5 days ago · Charles was forced to flee and Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, a member of the Orléans branch of the family, and son of Philippe Égalité who had voted the death of his cousin Louis XVI, ascended the throne.
3 days ago · Joan of Arc ( French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Jun 24, 2024 · Louis XII was King of France in the late 15th and early 16th Centuries. He was known as a warrior and a reformer. He was born on June 27, 1462, at the Royal Château de Blois, Touraine. His father was Charles, Duke of Orléans, and his mother was Marie of Cleves.
3 days ago · Marriage of Charles duke of Orleans with one of Henry's daughters, as suggested in No. 885. Francis I. seems to have thought that though Mary was regarded by the King as illegitimate he considered Elizabeth legitimate.
Jun 27, 2024 · The death of the popular duc d’Orléans in a carriage accident in July 1842 not only grieved Louis-Philippe very deeply but also seriously weakened the dynasty. The new heir to the throne, the duke’s son Philippe d’Orléans, comte de Paris, was an infant for whom a regency had to be prearranged. Victoria and the Affair of the ...
2 days ago · The Emperor had agreed by the treaty of Crépy, in 1544, that Charles, Duke of Orleans, should receive the Burgundian lands by wedding the Emperor's daughter Joanna, or else the Duchy of Milan if he married Charles' niece, Mary, a daughter of Ferdinand, King of the Romans.
