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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 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.
Yolande of Anjou (13 August 1412 – 17 July 1440). Married in 1431 Francis, Count of Montfort l'Amaury, who succeeded his father in 1442 as Duke of Brittany. Charles of Anjou (14 October 1414 – 10 April 1472), Count of Maine (who never was Duke of Anjou, but his namesake son was). Married firstly Cobella Ruffo and secondly Isabelle de St.Pol ...
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
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.
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 ...
Detail of the Burning Bush triptych, which shows Jeanne de Laval and René I of Anjou. René died on 10 July 1480. In his will, he bequeathed his wife a very large income in Anjou, Provence, and the Barrois. She also retained the County of Beaufort and the lordship of Mirebeau (exchanged with the baronies of Aubagne and Provence). After her ...