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Engraving of Francis, Duke of Anjou. Monsieur François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon (French: Hercule François; 18 March 1555 [1] – 10 June 1584) was the youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.
In 1360, the county was raised to a dukedom becoming known as Duke of Anjou, subsequently leading the Duchy of Anjou. The title was held by Philip V of Spain before his accession in 1700. Since then, some Spanish Legitimist claimants to the French throne have borne the title even to the present day, as does a nephew of the Orléanist pretender.
In 1552 it was given as an appanage by Henry II to his son Henry of Valois, who, on becoming king in 1574, with the title of Henry III, conceded it to his brother Francis, duke of Alençon, at the treaty of Beaulieu near Loches (6 May 1576). Francis died on 10 June 1584, and the vacant appanage definitively became part of the royal domain. [6]
The death of the royal heir presumptive, Francis, Duke of Anjou, in 1584, which made the Protestant King Henry of Navarre the heir to the French throne, led to a new civil war, the War of the Three Henries, with King Henry III of France, Henry of Navarre and Henry of Guise fighting for control of France. Guise began the war by declaring the ...
The city's experienced garrison then opened up with a deadly, point-blank fire on the troops. Only a few Frenchmen, including the Duke of Anjou, escaped. Over 1,500 troops perished, many of them hacked to death by the enraged citizens of Antwerp. One contemporary account is by Jean Bodin, an adviser to Anjou who also escaped the slaughter.
Louis François [1], Duke of Anjou (14 June 1672 – 4 November 1672) (French: Louis François de France) (Spanish: Luis Francisco de Francia) was the sixth child and youngest son of King Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain. As such he was a Fils de France and a Prince of France and as the son of Maria Theresa of Spain he was Infante ...
She went on to bear Henry a further eight children, seven of whom survived infancy, including the future Charles IX (born 27 June 27, 1550); the future Henry III (born 19 September 1551); and Francis, Duke of Anjou (born 18 March 1555), Claude (born 12 November 1547) and Margaret (born 14 May 1553).
Francis, Duke of Anjou; C. Charles IV of Anjou; Charles-Philippe d'Orléans; G. Gaston, Duke of Orléans; H. Henry III of France; L. Louis I of Anjou; Louis II of Anjou;