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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.
The construction of the current castle of Tarascon was started in 1401 by Louis II of Anjou. The construction was continued by his first son, Louis III of Anjou, and was completed in 1449 by his second son, René I of Naples (René d'Anjou). Thus, the castle is often referred to as le château du roi René (King René's castle). It was turned ...
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.
In 1482, the duchy became part of the Kingdom of France and then remained a province of the Kingdom under the name of the Duchy of Anjou. After the decree dividing France into departments in 1791, the province was disestablished and split into six new départements: Deux-Sèvres, Indre-et-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, and Vienne.
English: Map of the old province of Anjou, France, showing the communes according to the current administrative division. Français : Carte de la province de l'Anjou montrant les communes et les départements actuels.
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.
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.
Loches (the Roman Leucae) grew up around a monastery founded about 500 by St. Ours and belonged to the Counts of Anjou from 886 until 1205. In the latter year it was seized from King John of England by Philip Augustus, and from the middle of the 13th century until after the time of Charles IX of France the castle was a residence of the kings of France, apart for a brief interlude in 1424 when ...