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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.
Triboulet (fl. 1447–1479) [1] was a jester and comedy playwright for René of Anjou. There have been at least three Triboulets, as homonymy was widespread among French court jesters. [2] The Triboulet for René of Anjou was the first one. The name, equivalent to modern French phrase souffre-douleur ("punchbag"), comes from the archaic French ...
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.
Le Livre des tournois (Traicte de la Forme de Devis d'un Tournoi) or King René's Tournament Book is a treatise describing rules for tournaments by the French prince René d'Anjou. It is best known from what appears to be Rene's own illuminated copy from the 1460s, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris (MS Fr. 2695) with illustrations, or ...
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.
Raimon of Anjou, a 12th-century Troubadour in the provençal language, one of the first lords of Anjou. Charles IX , King of France (1550-1574) dined at the Anjou Chateau on 15 August 1564. Claude Brosse , a famous community trustee of the Dauphine villages, was châtelain of Anjou.
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