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3 days ago · Blanche of Castile. Charles I (early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–1285) and Forcalquier (1246–1248, 1256–1285) in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine ...
- 1246–1285
- Louis VIII of France
- Charles II
- Blanche of Castile
2 days ago · In House of Lilies , historian Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the epic story of the Capetian dynasty of medieval France, showing how their ideas about power, religion, and identity continue to shape European society and politics today. Reigning from 987 to 1328, the Capetian kings became the most powerful monarchy of the Middle Ages and ...
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- Hardcover
- Justine Firnhaber-Baker
5 days ago · 1054. Charter of Eustace, giving for the weal of his predecessors and of himself and his wife and his daughters who there serve God devoutly as nuns, to the abbey ( ecclesie) of Fontevrault 10 pounds sterling from the tithe of his rents in England. His sons William and Roger join in and confirm this gift.
5 days ago · The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states in 1135 AD, during the reign of Fulk. Fulk ( Latin: Fulco, French: Foulque or Foulques; c. 1089/1092 – 13 November 1143), also known as Fulk the Younger, was the count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129 and the king of Jerusalem with his wife Melisende from 1131 to his death.
- 1131–1143
- Bertrade de Montfort
1 day ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
5 days ago · Beaufort family. Role In: Wars of the Roses. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd duke of Somerset (born c. 1406—died May 22, 1455, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was an English nobleman and Lancastrian leader whose quarrel with Richard, duke of York, helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He was a ...
5 days ago · Capetian dynasty: 1 n a Frankish dynasty founded by Hugh Capet that ruled from 987 to 1328 Type of: dynasty a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
