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Louis I of Naples. 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. [1] His career was markedly unsuccessful. Born at the Château de Vincennes, Louis was the first of the Angevin branch of the French royal house. His father appointed him Count of Anjou ...
- 1360–1384
- Bonne of Bohemia
Mar 22, 2024 · Hundred Years’ War. 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 ...
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Louis I, Duke of Anjou 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. His father appointed him Count of Anjou and Count of Maine in 1356, and then raised him to the title Duke of Anjou in 1360 and Duke of Touraine in 1370.
Anjou itself was united to the royal domain again in 1328, but was detached in 1360 as the Duchy of Anjou for the king's son, Louis I of Anjou. The third Angevin dynasty, a branch of the House of Valois, also ruled for a time the Kingdom of Naples. The dukes had the same autonomy as the earlier counts, but the duchy was increasingly ...
- Angevin, Angevins, Angevine, Angevines
- Middle Ages
Louis I (Italian: Luigi, Aloisio, or Ludovico ; 1320 – 26 May 1362), also known as Louis of Taranto, was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou who reigned as King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, and Prince of Taranto . Louis gained the crown of Naples by marrying his first cousin, Queen Joanna I, whose prior husband, Andrew ...
- 27 May 1352 – 26 May 1362
- Catherine of Valois
- Philip I, Prince of Taranto
- Joanna I (as sole ruler)
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Second dynasty. In 1246 Louis IX of France gave Anjou as an appanage to his brother Charles, the future king of Naples and Sicily.Charles I was succeeded by his son Charles II and the latter by his son-in-law Charles III of Valois, under whose rule the economic and social conditions of the people of Anjou saw much improvement.
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.
