Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 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.
Bilan sur les auteurs actifs à la cour de René d'Anjou (1434-1480)". Romania (in French). 521– 522: 130– 151. Kekewich, Margaret L. (2008). The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. Margolis, Oren Jason (2016). The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy. Oxford University ...
1356–1360 as Count of Anjou 1360–1384 as Duke of Anjou also: count of Maine, de Provence and Touraine, king of Naples: 23 July 1339 Château de Vincennes second son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg: Marie of Blois 1360 three children 20 September 1384 Bisceglie aged 45 Louis II 1384–1417 also: king of Naples: 1377 Toulouse
County of Anjou, a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou Count of Anjou, title of nobility; Duchy of Anjou, a historical duchy and later a province of France Duke of Anjou, title of nobility; Anjou, Isère, a commune
The Capetian House of Anjou, or House of Anjou-Sicily, or House of Anjou-Naples was a royal house and cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. It is one of three separate royal houses referred to as Angevin , meaning "from Anjou" in France .
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 ...