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The castle of Baugé, home castle of René, Duke of Anjou, in the village of Baugé, Maine-et-Loire, France. René, as a vassal, paying homage to the King of France. The court of honour in the chateau at Tarascon, Provence, with vestiges of the busts of René and Jeanne de Laval on the right René of Naples with his army.
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Marie of Anjou (14 October 1404 – 29 November 1463) was Queen of France as the spouse of King Charles VII from 1422 to 1461. She served as regent and presided over the council of state several times during the absence of the king.
The Roman civitas was afterward preserved as an administrative district under the Franks with the name first of pagus —then of comitatus or countship—of Anjou. [4]At the beginning of the reign of Charles the Bald, the integrity of Anjou was seriously menaced by a twofold danger: from Brittany to the west and from Normandy to the north.
Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou [a] (c. 940 –1026 [1]) was, by her successive marriages, countess of Gévaudan and Forez, of Toulouse, of Provence, and of Burgundy, and queen of Aquitaine. She was the regent of Gevaudan during the minority of her sons in the 960s, and the regent of Provence during the minority of her son from 994 until 999.
On top of the fountain, the statue was designed by French sculptor David d'Angers (1788–1856) in 1822, in honor of René of Anjou. [2] It shows him holding muscat grapes, which he brought to Provence. [3] [4] It was restored in 2009, to mark the 600th birthday of Roi René. [2]
Marie of Blois, Duchess of Anjou. Marie of Blois (1345–1404) was a daughter of Joan of Penthièvre, Duchess of Brittany and Charles of Blois, Duke of Brittany.Through her marriage to Louis I, Duke of Anjou, she became Duchess of Anjou, Countess of Maine, Duchess of Touraine, titular Queen of Naples and Jerusalem and Countess of Provence.
Margaret of Anjou appears in many novels of historical fiction. Margaret is the main subject of: Red Rose of Anjou by Jean Plaidy; The Queen of Last Hopes by Susan Higginbotham; Blood and Roses by Catherine Hokin; Margaret also appears as a secondary or minor character in: The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory; The Kingmaker’s Daughter ...