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The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. In 1770, he married Marie Antoinette. He became King of France and Navarre on his grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, [5] and reigned until the abolition of the monarchy on 21 ...
His son, Prince William V, was the last stadtholder of the republic, whose own son, King William I, became the first king of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was established on 16 March 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars. With the independence of Belgium on 21 July 1831, the Netherlands formally became the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
The Jacobins tried to frighten the king into accepting the decrees and recalling his ministers. On 20 June 1792 the armed populace invaded the hall of the Assembly and the royal apartments in the Tuileries. For some hours the king and queen were in the utmost peril. With passive courage Louis refrained from making any promise to the insurgents. [8]
In the 11th century, by contrast, occasional meetings between the French king and the Emperor took place on a basis of equality of status, on or near the river Meuse that symbolized the border between the two realms: [1] between Robert II of France and Emperor Henry II in 1006 and again (in Mouzon) in 1023; [2] between Henry I of France and ...
His infant son Chlothar II became king and his wife Fredegund became regent. 592: 28 January: Guntram of Burgundy died, his realm was passed on to Childebert II who was his adoptive son. 8 December: Fredegund died so the 13-year-old Chlothar II started his reign as King of Neustria. 589: 17 October: Charibert II, Franco-Lombard-Byzantine war ...
Louis XVI moved to Paris in October of that year, but grew to detest Paris, and organised an escape plot in 1791. The plot, known as the Flight to Varennes, ultimately failed to materialise and severely damaged any positive public opinion for the monarchy. [4] Louis XVIi's brothers-in-exile in Koblenz rallied for an invasion of France.
Geoffrey and Matilda's son then went on to marry the richest heiress in Europe and ex-wife of the king of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine. By the time he became king Henry II of England in 1154, he ruled over an empire stretching from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees, and held more lands in the Kingdom of France than the king of France himself ...