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Apr 26, 2022 · Alys of France, Countess of the Vexin (4 October 1160 – c. 1220) was the daughter of King Louis VII of France and his second wife Constance of Castile. Alys was the half-sister of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France, Louis's children by Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the younger sister of Marguerite of France. Just five weeks after Constance ...
- Richard "The Lionheart", King of England
- circa 1213 (48-57)
- October 04, 1160
Alix, Princess Napoléon. Alix, Dowager Princess Napoléon (née de Foresta; born 4 April 1926) is the widow of Louis, Prince Napoléon, the disputed head of the House of Bonaparte, and pretender to the Imperial throne of France from their marriage in 1949 until his death in 1997. Bonapartists regarded her as "Empress of the French" for almost ...
- 4 April 1926 (age 97)
- Foresta
- Albéric, Count de Foresta
- Charles, Prince Napoléon, Princess Catherine, Princess Laure, Prince Jérôme
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Alix of France (summer 1151 ? 1197/1198) was the second daughter born to Louis VII of France by his first wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was named after her aunt Petronilla of Aquitaine, who was also called "Alix". (She is also known as Alaïs, Adélaïde, Adèle, Alais, or Alix, but is not to be confused with her half-sister Alix of France, the daught...
Some genealogical sources and websites, relying on P. Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, 1725 (vol. 1 p. 77), state that Alys was born in 1170. This is impossible, not only because she was betrothed in January 1169, but because she must have been of marriageable age in 1177, when the Pope demanded that sh...
This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011. This person was created on 21 March 2011 through the import of LJ Pellman Consolidated Family_2011-03-21.ged. Th...
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- Thibaut (Champagne) de Blois
Apr 4, 2019 · Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe. She is credited with establishing the literary genre of chivalric literature (though this is contested), contributing to the development of the Arthurian Legend, and ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Apr 9, 2024 · Catherine de’ Medici (born April 13, 1519, Florence [Italy]—died January 5, 1589, Blois, France) was the queen consort of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59) and subsequently regent of France (1560–74), who was one of the most influential personalities of the Catholic–Huguenot wars. Three of her sons were kings of France: Francis II ...
- Who was Catherine de’ Medici?Catherine de’ Medici was the queen consort of Henry II of France (1547–59) and regent of France. She was one of the most influential personalities...
- Where was Catherine de’ Medici born and raised?Catherine de’ Medici was born in Florence, Italy, on April 13, 1519. She was educated by nuns in Florence and in Rome.
- Who were Catherine de’ Medici’s parents?Catherine de’ Medici was the daughter of Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, duca di Urbino, and Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne, a Bourbon princess relat...
- What was Catherine de’ Medici best known for?Catherine de’ Medici was best known for being the queen consort of Henry II of France (1547–59) and regent of France. She is also known for her inv...
Life. Alix was born in 1200. She was the daughter of Constance, Duchess of Brittany and Guy of Thouars. [2] According to several French historians, Constance died after giving birth to Alix's sisters Catherine and Margaret. [c] Alix's older half-brother was Arthur I, Duke of Brittany and her half-sisters were Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany and ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Louis XIV (born September 5, 1638, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France—died September 1, 1715, Versailles, France) was the king of France (1643–1715) who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age.
