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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.
English: Illustration of the traditional French counties of Anjou and Maine with the Duchy of Aquitaine. Based on User:Thomas Gun's File:Duchy of Aquitaine.png, File:County of Maine.png, and File:Map of Anjou.png.
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.
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 ...
Image renamed from Image:Map France History XVe.svg. Data: # Map “France in the late 15th century”, from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, Londres, 1911 (digitized copy at Internet Medieval Sourcebook). # Legend (see below): #*Ibid.; #*Grand Atlas Historique, Éditions du Livre de Paris, Paris, 1968; #*Wikipedia.
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.
Liste de personnalités nées en Anjou; Histoire de Maine-et-Loire; Discussion Projet:Anjou et Maine-et-Loire; Histoire de l'Anjou; Listes des communes de l'Anjou historique situées hors de Maine-et-Loire; Histoire de Château-Gontier au Moyen Âge; Usage on he.wikipedia.org אנז'ו; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org Anjou (történelmi régió)