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The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Norman and Angevin regions ...
France in the late 15th century. Note the significant increase in the size of the royal domain (lightest blue) since 1154, and the extensive Burgundian possessions (yellow) Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy’s dream of becoming king of a territorially continuous state were ended when he was killed in battle at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. With ...
The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England .
Map “France in the late 15th century”, from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, Londres, 1911 (digitized copy at Internet Medieval Sourcebook).
France on the eve of the modern era (1477). The red line denotes the boundary of the French kingdom, while the light blue the royal domain. In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, [a] and numerous border provinces (such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté ...
The division of France between the Angevin (Plantagenet) kings of England and the Capetian kings of France would lead to the Hundred Years' War, and France would regain control over these territories only by the mid 15th century. What is now eastern France (Lorraine, Arelat) was not part of Western Francia to begin with and was only ...
15th century in France. Subcategories. This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total. / 15th-century disestablishments in France (2 C, 1 ...
Le royaume d'Arles et de Vienne (1138–1378): étude sur la formation territoriale de la France dans l'Ést et le Sudest. Paris: Picard. Fournier, Paul (1959). "The Kingdom of Burgundy or Arles from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century". In C. W. Previté-Orton (ed.). The Cambridge Medieval History, VIII: The Close of the Middle Ages ...