The Maine-Anjou is a French breed of domestic cattle, raised mainly in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France. It was created in the nineteenth...
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of Anjou. Its capital was Angers, and its area was roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers. Anjou was bordered by Brittany to the west, Maine to...
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roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers. Anjou was bordered by Brittany to the west, Maine to the north, Touraine to the east and Poitou to the...
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The count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son...
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their father, Louis the Pious. Robert the Strong (851/3–856) – given Maine, Anjou, and Touraine as dux and missus dominicus. Rebelled in 856. Louis the...
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called the Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage...
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subprefectures are Cholet, Saumur and Segré-en-Anjou Bleu. Maine-et-Loire had a population of 818,273 in 2019. Maine-et-Loire is one of the original 83 departments...
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became extinct in 1435. Historically, the house ruled the Counties of Anjou, Maine, Touraine, Provence and Forcalquier; the Principalities of Achaea and...
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Margaret of Anjou (1272 – 31 December 1299) was Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon and Perche by marriage. Margaret's...
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Fulk, King of Jerusalem (redirect from Fulk V of Anjou)
of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. They had: Geoffrey V of Anjou (1113–1151), father of Henry II of England. Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165...
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and Anjou from his father, uniting the two counties. She gave birth to: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) Elias II, Count of Maine (d. 1151)...
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Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446 – 10 December 1481), was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Maine, Count...
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Maine to the Norse nobleman Rollo, Duke of Normandy, in 924. Bordering the county of Anjou to the south and the Duchy of Normandy to the north, Maine...
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departments, southern Maine-et-Loire, northern Vendée, northern Deux-Sèvres, et southern Loire-Atlantique in the provinces of Poitou, Anjou and Brittany. The...
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Shorthorn Cattle Society sanctioned the introduction of Maine-Anjou blood into the breed. The Maine-Anjou breed, developed in France, was descended from the...
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paternal grandmother, Countess Margaret of Anjou and Maine, had been a princess of the Capetian House of Anjou or Elder Angevin Dynasty. She was the eldest...
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Pontoise, in 1441. At this time, his brother, René of Anjou, ceded to him the County of Maine. He continued to take part in King Charles' campaigns....
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form a grouping called Crédit mutuel Arkéa with its own brand identity; Maine-Anjou-Basse-Normandie (MABN, in Laval); and Océan (in La Roche-sur-Yon). Each...
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the best broodmares. In 1922, the department of Maine-et-Loire succeeded in creating a "Maine-Anjou" section in the French draft horse studbook, leading...
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Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from...
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Angers (redirect from Angers, Maine-et-Loire)
southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants...
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René of Anjou (Italian: Renato; Occitan: Rainièr; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also...
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England. Matilda was the daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, and his first wife Ermengarde, Countess of Maine. In February 1113, Fulk V and Henry I met near...
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His father appointed him Count of Anjou and Count of Maine in 1356, and then raised him to the title Duke of Anjou in 1360 and Duke of Touraine in 1370...
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Limousine[1][2] Limousin Lourdaise[1][2] Maraîchine[1][2] Marine Landaise[1][2] Maine-Anjou – see Rouge des Prés Mirandaise[1][2] Montbéliarde[1][2] Nantaise[1][2]...
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two sons of Louis I of Anjou and Marie of Blois. Louis I was a younger son of King John II of France who granted Anjou and Maine to him as hereditary appanage...
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spouse from 1147 to 1149. Sybilla was the daughter of Fulk V of Anjou and Ermengarde of Maine, In 1123, she married William Clito, son of the Norman Robert...
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recognized his loss of continental territory to France (including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou) in exchange for France withdrawing its support for English...
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Fulk V of Anjou and his first wife, Eremburga, daughter of Count Elias I of Maine. There is debate as to whether he was ever count of Maine or whether...
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East Java, Indonesia Small body, short legs, reddish yellow hair. Maine-Anjou Anjou region in France Red-and-white pied, polled, fast-growing if well-fed...
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