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Louis XII (27 June 1462 – 1 January 1515), also known as Louis of Orléans, was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his second cousin once removed and brother-in-law, Charles VIII, who died childless in 1498.
The first stages of conflict between the Papal States and France began in 1510. King Louis XII of France demanded that the Republic of Florence declare definitively its allegiance. However, declaring allegiance to France would expose Florence to an immediate attack, and alienate its citizens, who dreaded a conflict with the head of the Church.
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The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons .
With the civil wars of the early modern period, the king increasing turned to more tractable and subservient emissaries, and this was the reason for the growth of the provincial intendants under Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Indendants were chosen from among the maître des requêtes. Intendants attached to a province had jurisdiction over finances ...
Under Charles VII, a subcouncil of the King's council appeared to handle particularly contentious affairs.An ordinance by Charles VIII in 1497, and reissued by Louis XII in 1498, removed this section entirely from the King's Council and made it a superior court of justice under the institutional name "Grand Conseil".
The marriage was arranged because Joan, due to her malformation, was expected to be sterile. 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.
under Louis XII – Milan (1500, lost in 1521), Naples (1500, lost in 1504) under Francis I – Brittany (1532) under Henry II – de facto Trois-Évêchés (Metz, Toul, Verdun) (1552), Calais (1559) under Henry IV – County of Foix (1607) under Louis XIII – Béarn and Navarre (1620, under French control since 1589 as part of Henry IV's ...