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Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called " Louis the Prudent " (French: le Prudent ), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440. The king forgave his rebellious vassals, including Louis, to whom ...
Regnault de Chartres [1] ( c. 1380 [2] in Ons-en-Bray - 4 April 1444 in Tours) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Rheims, peer of France (as Archbishop-Duke of Rheims) and chancellor of France during the reign of King Charles VII of France. In 1429 during the Hundred Years' War he anointed and crowned the dauphin Charles king of France in ...
Marie Marguerite de Valois (1444–1473) was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles VII of France and his mistress Agnès Sorel. [1] She had two sisters, Charlotte de Valois (1446–1477) and Jeanne de Valois (born 1448). Marie married Olivier de Coétivy, Count of Taillebourg. [2]
Agnès Sorel. Charlotte de Brézé also known as Charlotte de Valois (c. 1446–1477), was an illegitimate daughter of Charles VII of France by Agnès Sorel. [1] She was the sister of Marie de Valois (1444–1473) and Jeanne de Valois (b. 1448), and the half sister of Louis XI of France .
Religion. Roman Catholicism. Louis VI (16 April 1080 — 1 August 1137), nicknamed the Fat ( French: le Gros ), or the Fighter (French: le Batailleur) was the King of France from 1108 until his death in 1137. He was the second child and the only son of King Philip I of France and his first wife, Bertha of Holland. Louis was a great warrior king.
Antoinette de Maignelais (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twanɛt də mɛɲlɛ]; 1434–1474) was the cousin of Agnès Sorel, favorite mistress of Charles VII of France until her sudden death in 1450. Married to André de Villequier , one of the king's mignons, she enjoyed a short but fruitful marriage, bearing two sons, until his death in 1454.
The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, issued by King Charles VII of France, on 7 July 1438, [1] required a General Church Council, with authority superior to that of the papacy, to be held every ten years, [2] required election rather than appointment to ecclesiastical offices, [3] prohibited the pope from bestowing and profiting from benefices ...
