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When Louis XIII died in 1643, Anne outmaneuvered her opponents to become sole regent to her four-year-old son, Louis XIV, and appointed Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister. The Fronde, a major revolt by the French nobility against Anne and Mazarin's government, broke out but was ultimately suppressed. In 1651, Anne's regency formally ended when ...
Louis was also captivated by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, 19 years his younger, who was later executed for conspiring with the Spanish enemy in time of war. Tallemant described how on a royal journey, the King "sent M. le Grand [de Cinq-Mars] to undress, who returned, adorned like a bride.
Mary's older sister, Catherine, who had been betrothed to Louis of France, died in late 1378. [3] [8] Louis the Great confirmed his earlier promise of Mary's and Sigismund's marriage to Sigismund's brother, Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, in Zólyom (now Zvolen in Slovakia) in 1379. [8] [9] Louis and Wenceslaus also agreed that they would ...
Louis François (14 June 1672 – 4 November 1672); styled Duke of Anjou, died in infancy. [56] Of her six children, only one survived her, Louis, le Grand Dauphin, the oldest one, [57] who died in 1711. One of her younger grandsons eventually inherited her claim to the Spanish throne to become King Philip V of Spain in 1700. [58]
By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois. [5] [6] Louis was displeased at the forced marriage, and his treatment of his new wife reflected this. King Louis died in 1483 and was succeeded by his son Charles. As he was still a child, his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, was made Regent of the kingdom. By ...
Her nephew Louis XIV, who loved and esteemed his aunt, visited her several times and consulted her on everything that concerned the affairs of France. [124] In August 1669, she saw the birth of her granddaughter Anne Marie d'Orléans ; Anne Marie was the maternal grandmother of Louis XV , making Henrietta Maria an ancestor of most of today's ...
The marriage was arranged as a part of a series of Franco-Sardinian dynastic marriages taking place in a time span of eight years: after the wedding between her first cousin the Princesse de Lamballe and Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe, [3]: 7 and the wedding between Marie Joséphine and Louis Stanislas, her younger sister Maria ...
She encouraged her son Charles Emmanuel to marry her niece Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, the youngest surviving daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, her youngest brother. They married 3 Apr 1663. [2] Christine died at the Palazzo Madama, Turin, on 27 Dec 1663 [3] at the age of 57 and was buried at the Basilica of Sant'Andrea. She had ...