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John of Berry or John the Magnificent ( French: Jean de Berry, Latin: Johannes de Bituria; 30 November 1340 – 15 June 1416) was Duke of Berry and Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. His brothers were King Charles V of France, Duke Louis I of Anjou and Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy. He was Regent of France from 1380 to 1388 ...
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, March: the Château de Lusignan. The Château de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne département, France), of which hardly any traces remain, was the ancestral seat of the House of Lusignan, Poitevin Marcher Lords, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and became the royal family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Cyprus and the Armenian ...
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List of dukes of Auvergne. John, Duke of Berry (1360–1416), first husband of Joan II, Countess of Auvergne. Marie of Berry (1416–1425) daughter of John. John I, Duke of Bourbon (1416–1425), husband of Marie. Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1425–1456), son of Marie and John I.
Dec 31, 2015 · THE DUCHY OF BERRY John, Duke of Berry * Bourges Palace * Mehun-sur-Yevre Castle * Poitiers, Ducal Palace * Poitiers, Clain Castle 18. THE DUCHY OF ORLEANS The House of Orleans * Pierrefonds Castle * La Ferte Milon Castle 19. THE DUCHY OF BURGUNDY John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy * Paris, Tour Jean Sans Peur viii CONTENTS PART THREE: 1415 ...
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John, Duke Of Berry - Encyclopedia. JOHN BERRY, DUKE OF (1340-1416), third son of John II., king of France and Bonne of Luxemburg, was born on the 30th of November 1340 at Vincennes. He was created count of Poitiers in 1356, and was made the king's lieutenant in southern France, though the real power rested chiefly with John of Armagnac, whose ...
Nov 18, 2008 · The Belles Heures is a private prayer book commissioned in the early 1400s by John, the Duke of Berry (1340–1416), the son, brother, and uncle of three successive French kings. He appears twice in the Belles Heures, including the image at right, in which he rides a white horse toward a castle flying the flags of Burgundy.
When Philip the Bold died in 1404, the future was uncertain for both the brothers and their uncle, but eventually Philip’s brother—Jean de France, duc de Berry (John, Duke of Berry)—took on the still teenaged boys. They would go on to create the Belles Heures de Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or the Beautiful Hours of the Duke of Berry ...
