successors, the local Count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1308. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny (1360)...

Festival Counts and dukes of Angoulême Angoumois Bishopric of Angoulême Poitou-Charentes Communes of the Charente department Nouvelle-Angoulême Angolemi...

Illustrated History of France (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 0-521-43294-4. Titles of the counts and dukes of Anjou in the 11-16th...

the best known Duchess of Angoulême. She was imprisoned during the French Revolution, and lived her later life in exile. Counts and dukes of Angoulême...

III and William VII, became Counts of Angoulême in succession after the death of their father in 1179. Aymer succeeded his brother in 1186, and soon...

the Angoulême branch, descendants of John, Count of Angoulême, from 1515 to 1589. Other Valois branches are: the dukes of Alençon, descendants of Charles...

and dukes of Angoulême Counts and Dukes of Anjou Duke of Aquitaine Counts and Dukes of Auvergne Duc de Berry Duke of Bourbon Duke of Brittany Duke of...

Charles, Count of Angoulême (1459–1496) Francis, Count of Angoulême (1494–1547), later also King of France as Francis I House of Valois-Dunois, counts of Longueville...

rebel, and the counts lost control of it, being reduced to "minor nobles dependent upon the dukes of Aquitaine". In 1047, Count Geoffrey I of Anjou imported...

1650) was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and a memoirist. Charles de Valois...

1536, Henry substituted him as Dauphin and ceded the title to his younger brother Charles, Duke of Angoulême, who died childless in 1545. The fourth...

and three temporal, and the dukes all ranked above the counts. The Prince-Bishops with ducal territories included: The Archbishop of Reims, styled archevêque-duc...

first seven dukes was erected in Falaise in Normandy in the 19th century. It depicts William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and later King of England...

(1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord (1400–1407) and Soissons (1404–07). He was the younger brother of King Charles VI of France, and a powerful and polarizing...

Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830...

Hereditary dukes were sometimes a female ruler, carrying the title duchesse of Brittany. Its principal cities and regions were ruled by counts who often...

of France, Count of Clermont, and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of Bourbon. In 1416, with the death of John of Valois, the Dukes of Bourbon...

Sancio, and so on. Usually, the dukes and counts of Gascony had two names, the first one being their given name, the second one being the given name of their...

both king of Western Francia and ruled during the Carolingian era. His daughter Richildis married a count of Troyes. The family became Counts of Paris under...

title for the eldest son of a duke or marquess. In the Italian states, by contrast, all the sons of certain counts were little counts (contini). In Sweden...

also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second...

was count of Auvergne and duke of Angoulême. Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, conte d'Alais, was the son of Charles de Valois, the illegitimate son of King...

March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his...

appointment of Charlemagne in 778. From the 950s on, the counts were also dukes of Aquitaine. After the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine with Louis VII of France...

in Toulon, Marie Françoise de Valois (d. 1696), daughter of Louis Emmanuel, Duke of Angoulême, who succeeded her father in 1653. Mentally unstable (imbécile)...

Dauphin of France (Francis I's eldest son), in 1536, Charles was known as the Duke of Angoulême. After his brother's death, he became Duke of Orléans...

December 2023) Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême, (born 18 March 1968, Paris), married civilly in Dreux on 19 June 1999, and religiously in Antrain on 10 July...

estate of Bonnivet in Poitou from the 14th century. There were many branches of this family, the chief of them being the dukes of Roannais, the counts of Caravas...

d'Albret (1528–1572), heiress of Navarre as the daughter of King Henry II of Navarre and his wife Margaret of Valois-Angoulême, on 14 June 1541 when she was...

traded Clermont for La Marche with his cousin Charles, Count of Angoulême, younger brother of King Philip V. These appanages remained in the Bourbon family...