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The Capetian House of Anjou was a royal house and cadet branch of the direct French House of Capet, part of the Capetian dynasty. It is one of three separate royal houses referred to as Angevin, meaning "from Anjou" in France.
Anjou was bordered by Brittany to the west, Maine to the north, Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. The adjectival form is Angevin, and inhabitants of Anjou are known as Angevins. During the Middle Ages, the County of Anjou, ruled by the Counts of Anjou, was a prominent fief of the French crown.
Capetian dynasty Edit Capetian House of Anjou Edit. Charles I (1246–1285), King of Sicily, King of Jerusalem, Count of Maine, of Provence, of Forcalquier; Charles II (1285–1290; Margaret I (1285–1299) In 1290, Margaret married Charles of Valois, the younger brother of king Philip IV of France. He became Count of Anjou in her right. House ...
Dynamic map of the European frontiers of France from 985 to 1947. Occidental France , which arose from the Treaty of Verdun of 843, remained stable for many years. The first kings, the Capetians , were too much occupied with imposing their authority in their own realm to be expansionist.
The Norman-Hohenstaufen and Capetian House of Anjou Periods. Around the year 1000 the Normans landed on the Adriatic coast. In 1042 Robert Guiscard assigned Trani and its surroundings to his vassal Peter I of Trani, who became Count of Trani and retained that title until 1060. He, following some homeowners' requests for protection, started ...
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France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones of any country, with a total of twelve.
Capetian House of Anjou and John II of France · See more » John of Anjou. John (János; 1354–1360) was a Hungarian royal prince of the Capetian House of Anjou. New!!: Capetian House of Anjou and John of Anjou · See more » Karl Topia
In the High Middle Ages, the title of Count of Provence belonged to local families of Frankish origin, to the House of Barcelona, to the House of Anjou and to a cadet branch of the House of Valois. After 1032, the county was part of the Holy Roman Empire .
Most of the territory of Lower Burgundy was progressively incorporated into France—the County of Provence fell to the Capetian House of Anjou in 1246 and finally to the French crown in 1481, the Dauphiné was annexed and sold to King Philip VI of France in 1349 by Dauphin Humbert II of Viennois.