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Louis XIII, King of France, lodged at Anjou Chateau with his entire court on 20 July 1629, during his return from the South. Humbert Guillot de Golat, Squire of Garenne, a Dauphinois poet, lived at Anjou where he wrote many poems. Sarah Bernhardt visited Anjou in 1887 and stayed at Anjou Chateau at the invitation of Clément and Alice Jourdan.
Charles of Valois at once entered into possession of the countship of Anjou, to which Philip IV, the Fair, in September 1297, attached a peerage of France. On 16 December 1325, Charles died, leaving Anjou to his eldest son Philip of Valois , on whose recognition as King of France (Philip VI) on 1 April 1328, the countship of Anjou was again ...
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.
County of Anjou, a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou ... D'Anjou or Anjou pear; Other uses. Anjou, wrecked in 1905; See also
The coat of arms of Angers bears the French royal fleur de lys of the dukes of Anjou (the first duke was the son of the king of France, Jean II); the key evokes the stronghold position of the city close to the Breton border. An acrostic from the Middle Ages calls it Antique clef de France, which means "Ancient key to France":
Doué-la-Fontaine (French pronunciation: [dwe la fɔ̃tɛn] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. [2] On 30 December 2016, it was merged into the new commune Doué-en-Anjou. [3] It is located in the heart of Anjou, a few kilometres from the great châteaux of the Loire Valley.
In the 11th century the village became an important military site for Anjou under baron Rorgon de Candé, at Fort-Castle of Candé.. Candé was noted in 2000-2001 as the residence of Marie Bremont, then the world's oldest person, who died at age 115.
Loches (the Roman Leucae) grew up around a monastery founded about 500 by St. Ours and belonged to the Counts of Anjou from 886 until 1205. In the latter year it was seized from King John of England by Philip Augustus, and from the middle of the 13th century until after the time of Charles IX of France the castle was a residence of the kings of France, apart for a brief interlude in 1424 when ...