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  2. 4 days ago · His mother Blanche of Castile and his wife Margaret of Provence influenced him strongly but never dominated him (p. 203). Some modern historians have cautioned that Louis IX’s reign should not be viewed as some sort of ‘Golden Age’ for France; royal power had declined by the end of his reign and the signs foreshadowing the disasters of ...

  3. 5 days ago · King of France r. 1285–1314: Joan I 1273–1305 Queen of Navarre: Louis I 1279–1341 Duke of Bourbon Bourbons: Clementia of Hungary 1293–1328: Louis X 1289–1316 King of France r. 1314–1316: Margaret of Burgundy 1290–1315: Philip V c. 1293 –1322 King of France r. 1316–1322: Joan II 1292–1330 Countess of Burgundy: Charles IV 1294 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 1 day ago · Philip was present at the Siege of Perpignan in 1542 but did not see action as the Spanish army under Alba decisively defeated the besieging French forces under the Dauphin of France. On his way back to Castile, Philip received the oath of allegiance of the Aragonese Cortes at Monzón. His political training had begun a year previously under ...

  6. 5 days ago · Louis XV (born February 15, 1710, Versailles, France—died May 10, 1774, Versailles) was the king of France from 1715 to 1774, whose ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

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  7. 3 days ago · Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the Petit Dauphin.

  8. 5 days ago · Louvre, national museum and art gallery of France, housed in part of a large palace in Paris that was built on the right-bank site of the 12th-century fortress of Philip Augustus. It is the world’s most-visited art museum, with a collection that spans work from ancient civilizations to the mid-19th century.