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Charles of Valois was a powerful magnate in his own right, a key advisor to Louis X, [10] and he had made a bid for the regency in 1316, initially championing Louis X's daughter Joan, before finally switching sides and backing Philip V. [11] Charles of Valois would have been aware that if Charles died without male heirs, he and his male heirs ...
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians .
Louis IV (920/921 [1] – 10 September 954 [2]), called d'Outremer or Transmarinus ("From overseas"), reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son of king Charles the Simple and his second wife Eadgifu of Wessex, daughter of King Edward the Elder of Wessex. [3]
Charles X named Louis Philippe as Lieutenant général du royaume, a regent to the young Henry V, and charged him to announce his desire to have his grandson succeed him to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French Parliament at the time, the French equivalent at the time of the UK House of Commons. Louis Philippe did not do this ...
Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' biography. He then put himself to the task of writing livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs (as he himself called it), today known as the Life of Saint Louis. Jeanne of Navarre died on 2 April ...
On 11 July 1346, in consequence of an alliance between his father and Pope Clement VI, relentless enemy of the emperor Louis IV, Charles was elected as Roman king in opposition to Louis by some of the prince-electors at Rhens. As he had previously promised to be subservient to Clement, he made extensive concessions to the pope in 1347.
Henry IV 1553–1610 King of France r. 1589–1610: Louis XIII 1601–1643 King of France r. 1610–1643 House of Orléans: Louis XIV 1638–1715 King of France r. 1643–1715: Philippe I 1640–1701 Duke of Orléans: Louis 1661–1711 Grand Dauphin: Louis 1682–1712 Duke of Burgundy Petit Dauphin: Philippe II 1674–1723 Duke of Orléans ...
The book contains the usual prayers of the canonical hours as arranged for the laity along with the notable inclusion of the office dedicated to St Louis, her great-grandfather. The small statue of the Virgin and Child ( gilded silver and enamel , 69 cm high), which Jeanne left to the monastery of St Denis outside Paris, is in the Louvre Museum .