Dauphin Charles of Valois was legitimately crowned as King Charles VII of France in Rheims cathedral. |
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Henri IV was a direct descendant of the Capetian kings, married a Valois princess of the blood, and founded the Bourbon dynasty. |
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois. |
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Her field of deployment was not the courtrooms of Paris but the literary culture of the Valois court, with its love of classical myths and its taste for bizarrerie. |
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The Hundred Years' War could be considered a lengthy war of succession between the houses of Valois and Plantagenet. |
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To accept the Treaty of Troyes would be a denial of the legitimacy of the Valois. |
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The last phase of Valois rule in France was marked by the French Wars of Religion. |
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With his death the male line of the House of Valois had been completely extinguished, after reigning for 261 years in France. |
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Hostages from the Valois family were held in London while John returned to France to raise his ransom. |
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Owen is said to have secretly married the widow of Henry V, Catherine of Valois. |
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In 1589, Henry III, the last of the Valois lineage, died at the walls of Paris. |
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He was betrothed to both Louise and Charlotte of Valois, daughters of King Francis I of France, but they both died in childhood. |
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Charles also inherited the tradition of political and dynastic enmity between the royal and the Burgundian ducal lines of the Valois dynasty. |
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Baylis owned the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres and in 1925 she engaged de Valois to stage dance performances at both venues. |
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In his second campaign, he recaptured much of Normandy and in a treaty secured a marriage to Catherine of Valois. |
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In subsequent years Henry recaptured much of Normandy and secured marriage to Catherine of Valois. |
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This triggered the Hundred Years' War, in which both the Plantagenets and the House of Valois claimed the supremacy over Aquitaine. |
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Thus the French magnates chose Philip of Valois, who became Philip VI of France. |
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Meanwhile, Henry V had been busy in England with his wife Catherine of Valois. |
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It was first used in the 15th century as an emblem by the Valois Dukes of Burgundy. |
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Valois took the Agenais and then advanced further and cut off the main city of Bordeaux. |
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During the reign of Philip of Valois, the French monarchy reached the height of its medieval power. |
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This process culminated in the rule of the House of Valois, who were the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy. |
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Prior to the Valois succession, Capetian kings granted appanages to their younger sons and brothers, which could pass to male and female heirs. |
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It was in Valois France, under the heavy demands of the Hundred Years' War, that the armed forces gradually assumed a permanent nature. |
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Elizabeth of Valois, Philip's third wife and Isabella's mother, had already ceded any claim to the French Crown with her marriage to Philip. |
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However, she delayed in answering, and in that time learned Philip was also considering a Valois alliance. |
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He ended French Valois ambitions in Italy and brought about the Habsburg ascendency in Europe. |
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Philip's third wife was Elisabeth of Valois, the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
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The accession to the throne of Philippe de Valois in 1328 broke the uninterrupted Capetian chain of power and necessitated a dynastic guarantor. |
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De Valois remained the director of the company, with Ashton as principal choreographer. |
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Prior to her return to Britain, Ninette de Valois had been a member of the Ballets Russes, one of the most renowned and influential ballet companies of the 20th century. |
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Fonteyn began her greatest artistic partnership at a time when many people, including the head of the Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois, thought she was about to retire. |
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But the appanages given to the Valois princes, in imitation of the succession law of the monarchy that gave them, limited their transmission to males. |
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When de Valois retired in 1963, Ashton succeeded her as director. |
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He married first Madeleine of Valois, a daughter of Francis I of France, and when she died a few months later of tuberculosis, he married Mary of Guise. |
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More than a century later, Philip II of Spain attempted to claim the French crown for his daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia, born of his Valois queen. |
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Thus the nearest heir through male ancestry was Charles IV's first cousin, Philip, Count of Valois, and it was decided that he should be crowned Philip VI of France. |
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The Duchy of Burgundy, forming a large part of eastern France and the Low Countries, was inherited by the House of Habsburg on the extinction of the Valois ducal line. |
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They signed the Treaty of Troyes, by which Henry finally married Charles' daughter Catherine of Valois and Henry's heirs would inherit the throne of France. |
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The work, choreographed by Ninette de Valois, made a powerful impression at its early stagings, and has been revived by the Royal Ballet several times. |
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With his death the senior line of the House of Valois became extinct. |
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Owen Tudor, the son of the butler, like the children of other rebels, was provided for by Henry V, a circumstance that precipitated his access to Queen Catherine of Valois. |
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