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Louis I, Duke of Anjou (23 July 1339 – 20 September 1384) was a French prince, the second son of John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia. His career was markedly unsuccessful. Born at the Château de Vincennes , Louis was the first of the Angevin branch of the French royal house.
Louis I (born July 23, 1339, Vincennes, Fr.—died Sept. 20, 1384, Bisceglie, Apulia, Kingdom of Sicily) was the duke of Anjou, count of Maine, count of Provence, and claimant to the crown of Sicily and Jerusalem. He augmented his own and France’s power by attempting to establish a French claim to the Sicilian throne and by vigorously ...
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Louis I, Duke of Anjou (23 July 1339 – 20 September 1384) was a French prince, the second son of John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia. His career was markedly unsuccessful. Born at the Château de Vincennes, Louis was the first of the Angevin branch of the French royal house.
Louis I, also Louis the Great ( Hungarian: Nagy Lajos; Croatian: Ludovik Veliki; Slovak: Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( Polish: Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 1326 – 10 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.
Apr 26, 2022 · Louis I of Anjou (July 23, 1339 – September 20, 1384) was the second son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg. He was the Count of Anjou 1356–1360, Duke of Anjou 1360–1384, Count of Maine 1356–1384, Duke of Touraine 1370–1384, and titular King of Naples and Jerusalem and Count of Provence and Forcalquier 1382–1384.
- Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France
- July 23, 1339
- "/Louis/ I", "Louis I of /Anjou/"
Louis I, who became in time count of Provence and titular king of Naples, died in 1384, and was succeeded by his son Louis II, who devoted most of his energies to his Neapolitan ambitions, and left the administration of Anjou almost entirely in the hands of his wife, Yolande of Aragon.
Apr 25, 2024 · Louis II (born Oct. 7, 1377, Toulon, Fr.—died April 29, 1417, Angers) was the duke of Anjou, count of Maine and Provence (1384–1417), king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem, who attempted, with only temporary success, to enforce the Angevin claims to the Neapolitan throne initiated by his father, Louis I.
