Sensing imminent death in the spring of 1643, King Louis XIII decided to put his affairs in order for his four-year-old son Louis XIV. Not trusting the judgement of his Spanish wife Queen Anne, who would normally have become the sole regent of France, the king decreed that a regency cou...
Mary Tudor(1496 – 1533), married (1)Louis XII, King of France, no issue (2)Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, had issue, grandmother ofLady Jane Grey Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset(1499 – 1500), died young Katherine Tudor(born and died 1503), died shortly after birth, her mothe...
was greatly increased in the 1150s.Henry Plantagenet, already duke of Normandy (1150) and count of Anjou (1151), became not only duke ofAquitainein 1152—by right of his wife,Eleanor of Aquitaine, recently divorced fromLouis VIIof France—but also king of England, as Henry II, in 1154....
François with his son, probably François Jr., who died at age 18 before coming to the throne. The Sword and the Rose(1953) A Disney take on Mary, sister of Henry VIII, who was married to the elderly King Louis XII of France. François is played by Gérard Oury. I believe tha...
King Henri II of France was born on March 31, 1519, at theChâteau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, France. He was the second son ofKing François I of FranceandClaude, Duchess of Brittany, a daughter ofKing Louis XII of FranceandAnne, Duchess of Brittany. ...
In the following year, 13,000 men led by Charles routed 12,000 Danes at theBattle of Landskrona. This proved to be the lastpitched battleof the war since, in September 1678, Christian V evacuated his army back toZealand. In 1679,Louis XIV of Francedictated the terms of a general pacific...
he was joined by Eberhard of Franconia and by Giselbert ofLotharingiaand supported by the French kingLouis IV. Otto was again victorious: Eberhard fell in battle, Giselbert was drowned in flight, and Henry submitted to his brother. Nevertheless, in 941 Henry joined aconspiracyto murder the ...
In addition to his sonsArthurandHenry, Henry VII had several daughters, one of whom,Margaret, marriedJames IV, King of Scotland, and another,Mary, became the wife ofLouis XIIof France, and afterwards ofCharles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. (James Gairdner)©...
The group performs together on stage, recordings, and television to great acclaim in the United States, Ireland, theUnited Kingdom, Canada, andAustraliauntil Tommy Makem leaves to pursue a solo career in 1969. They continue performing first withBobby Clancyand then withLouis Killenuntil Liam leav...
He had married Anne of Savoy in 1478. Anne died in childbirth in 1480, but their daughter Charlotte survived. He remarried to Isabella del Balzo with whom he had a further five children. He was ousted as King of Naples by Louis XII of France in 1501, who succeeded him as Louis III of...